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In that time, however, the pirates had well-nigh gone crazy for joy; for when they came to examine their purchase they discovered her cargo to consist of plate to the prodigious sum of L180,000 in value. 'Twas a wonder they did not all make themselves drunk for joy.
Since the Abolition of the slave trade the imports from this tract of coast have greatly increased; and it may be stated upon the undoubted authority of intelligent persons, perfectly acquainted with the facts, that the importations have amounted, during the last five or six years, to the annual value of from L120,000. to L180,000.
I dare say he's the kind of fellow you'd like very well, Radie. And his sly eyes had a twinkle in them which seemed to say, 'Perhaps I've divined your secret. 'And so I do, and I like his wife, too, very much. 'His wife! So William has married on L180 a year; and the captain laughed quietly but very pleasantly again.
'Not quite half a mile away; he has got the vicarage of Naunton Friars. 'Oh, then, Will is not quite such a fool as we took him for. 'It is worth just L180 a year! but he's very far from a fool. 'Yes, of course, he knows Greek poets and Latin fathers, and all the rest of it. I don't mean he ever was plucked.
Thence took leave, leaving my Lord Sandwich to go visit the Bishop of Canterbury, and I and Sir W. Batten down to the Tower, where he went further by water, and I home, and among other things took out all my gold to carry along with me to-night with Captain Cocke downe to the fleete, being L180 and more, hoping to lay out that and a great deal more to good advantage.
Under these circumstances, if the American metropolitan newspapers were published here in Constantinople, their next commercial report would read about as follows, I suppose: SLAVE GIRL MARKET REPORT. "Best brands Circassians, crop of 1850, L200; 1852, L250; 1854, L300. Best brands Georgian, none in market; second quality, 1851, L180.
Under these circumstances, if the American metropolitan newspapers were published here in Constantinople, their next commercial report would read about as follows, I suppose: SLAVE GIRL MARKET REPORT. "Best brands Circassians, crop of 1850, L200; 1852, L250; 1854, L300. Best brands Georgian, none in market; second quality, 1851, L180.
I have a younger brother, who supports my aged mother, another still younger brother, and three sisters, in a farm. On my last return from Edinburgh it cost me about L180 to save them from ruin. Not that I have lost so much I only interposed between my brother and his impending fate by the loan of so much.
McGonigal was here this morning after you went up to Belfast," he said, as John entered the kitchen. "Everything's settled up. Your Uncle Matthew left you L180 and his books. It's more nor I imagined he had, though I knew well he hardly spent a copper on himself, beyond the books he bought.
So I'll trouble you to give me my sixty thousand; and I advise you as a friend to hold on to the rest." "Clark!" said Potts, "you're getting timider and timider. You ain't got any more pluck these times than a kitten." "It's a time when a man's got to be careful of his earnings," said Clark. "How much have you out in notes? You told me once you had out about L180,000, perhaps more.
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