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Updated: May 31, 2025
Over great familiarity genders despight. Of ill Debtois men takes Oattes. Over jolly dow not. Oft counting makes good friends. Of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Over narrow counting culzies no kindnesse. Out of sight, out of langer. Put twa half-pennies in a purse, and they will draw together. Put not your hand betwixt the rind and the Tree. Pith is good in all Playes.
His wife burst out crying when she saw me, and she told me that her husband had cleared out last night after he came home from court. The hardened scoundrel took with him the few pounds of her savings which she kept in her bedroom, and had even emptied the contents of the till of the few shillings and coppers it contained. All he left were the half-pennies in the child's money-box.
Just a little self-denial, and those pennies and half-pennies which you so often spend on sweets and other unnecessary things might be given as a donation to the good cause. Here the holy man paused again, and there was a rumbling, gurgling noise in the interior of the balloon, followed by several escapes of gas through the safety valve.
If the gentleman as I saw with your mar, miss, hadn't given me five shillings, I don't know where I should be." "I will ask my uncle what he would like for dinner or supper, and come to you in the kitchen afterward." Such was Katherine's inauguration. She soon found ample occupation. Not a day passed without a battle over pennies and half-pennies.
These were a gold watch and chain, a cornelian heart fixed to the free end of the chain, a silver cigarette case, a couple of keys, one sovereign, four shillings, three pennies and two half-pennies. A trunk already fastened and filled with books and clothes, and the portmanteau on the bed, contained the rest of his possessions.
On asking the wife whether they were badly off, her sole reply was to take a cup from the chimney-piece, and show me, in heart-breaking silence, a sixpence and three half-pennies!
So we all gave up sugar, and Perronet was allowed to remain. About the tax, we thought we could save any pennies or half-pennies we got during the year, and it was such a long time to the time for paying, that we should be almost sure to have enough by then.
And what do you think they found in the pockets?" "I cannot imagine." "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with pennies and half-pennies 421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between the wharf and the house.
Here were two young people, one twenty-two, the other eighteen, with it could hardly be said "not a half-penny," but still a very small quantity of half-pennies, between them and they had not only fallen in love, but engaged themselves to married!
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