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I cannot say last night was equally agreeable. There was what they called a ridotto al fresco at Vauxhall, for which one paid half-a-guinea, though, except some thousand more lamps and a covered passage all round the garden, which took off from the gardenhood, there was nothing better than on a common night. Mr.
I hurried down to the harbour, jumped into a wherry, and promised the waterman half-a-guinea if I got on board before dark. "Why, lad, there's no great hurry, I should think," said he; "the frigate won't sail without you." "No; but a shipmate pledged his word for me that I would be back, and I must not let him break it, you know." "Well, we wasn't so particular in my time," said the old man.
'That Dennis, said his lordship, 'is an earnest man. I marked him in the crowd in Welbeck Street, last Friday. 'A good man, rejoined the secretary, 'a staunch, sincere, and truly zealous man. 'He should be encouraged, said Lord George. 'Make a note of Dennis. I'll talk with him. Gashford obeyed, and went on reading from his list: "The Friends of Reason, half-a-guinea.
For what good can be expected from the youth who receives the sacrament of the Lord's supper, to avoid forfeiting half-a-guinea, which he probably afterwards spends in some sensual manner?
This plea came home to his reason, who had been sobered by his wife's rage, the fury of which fell on him when I was out of her reach, and he sent the boy to me with half-a-guinea, desiring him to conduct me to a house, where beggars, and other wretches, the refuse of society, nightly lodged. "This night was spent in a state of stupefaction, or desperation. I detested mankind, and abhorred myself.
Swinfen his god-father, and widow of a writing-master; Miss Carmichael, and, as Boswell thought, a daughter also of Mrs. Desmoulins, all of whom were lodged in his house. To the widow he allowed half-a-guinea a week, the twelfth part, as Boswell observes, of his pension. It was sometimes more than he could do, to reconcile so many jarring interests. "Williams," says he, in a letter to Mrs.
She now entreated me to lend her half-a-guinea, for which she said she had the most pressing occasion, and promised upon her honour it should be repaid to-morrow; but I lent a deaf ear to her request, and told her in plain terms that her honour was already bankrupt."
Always one priest, often five or six priests, attend these funerals; each priest repeats a mass, for which he is paid, sometimes a shilling, sometimes half-a-crown, sometimes half-a-guinea, or a guinea, according to their circumstances, or, as they say, according to the ability of the deceased.
"Half-a-guinea!" exclaimed that same Lord, "I would give half I am worth for a sight of only one, provided I make my own choice. And, prithee, how can money be better employed than in the service of fine women?" "If the ladies of his own party can pardon the Captain's speech," said Sir Clement, "I think he has a fair claim to the forgiveness of all."
"WHAT!" screamed out Mrs. Score. "Are not you the Count? Do you mean to say that you a'n't Cat's ? DO you mean to say that you didn't order her bed, and that you won't pay this here little bill?" And with this she produced a document, by which the Count's lady was made her debtor in a sum of half-a-guinea. These passionate words excited more and more laughter.
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