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"Mistress Lauder says you wad like me to go wi' you, Miss Campbell. I'll be glad to do it. I am just wearying for the country, and I'll do my best to pleasure you." "Oh, thank you. It is to sew table damask. I will give you. L5 a month." "That is gude pay. I'll be gratefu' for it." "Be ready by nine o'clock to-morrow morning. I will call here for you." Drumloch was a very ancient place.
Crumlum, and did give him the 10s. remaining, not laid out of the L5 I promised him for the school, with which he will buy strings, and golden letters upon the books I did give them.
'And then, far more, because Bruce, do you remember assuring me that you were going to make L5,000 a year at least? 'Well, so I shall, so I shall. You must give a fellow time. Rome wasn't built in a day. 'I know it wasn't, and if it had been it would be no help to me. Will you look at the bills? 'Oh, confound it!
No such thing, sir! Ha!" 'Hygrometer l5' but this is not to-day's weather? Ah! no. Ha! 'Barometer 30.380. Ha! 'Sky cloudy, dark; wind, south, light. Ha! 'River rising. Ha! Professor Frowenfeld, when will you give your splendid services to your section? You must tell me, my son, for I ask you, my son, not from curiosity, but out of impatient interest."
On the dissolution of Parliament in 1629, being obnoxious to the royal party, he was sent to the Tower, and then confined in a house of correction for pirates. But as a compensation for his injuries in 1647 he received L5,000 from the public purse and became a member of the Long Parliament.
Prynne was ejected from his profession, condemned to stand in the pillory at Westminster and Cheapside, to lose both his ears, one in each place, to pay a fine of L5,000, and to be kept in perpetual imprisonment. He was subsequently removed to the Castle of Mont Orgueil, in Jersey, where he received kind treatment from his jailor, Sir Philip de Carteret.
Berkenshaw in the morning at my musique practice; finishing my song of "Gaze not on Swans," in two parts, which pleases me well, and I did give him L5 for this month or five weeks that he hath taught me, which is a great deal of money and troubled me to part with it. Thence to the Paynter s, and set again for my picture in little, and thence over the water to Southwark to Mr.
But, besides this, he got 1s. out of each coat made on his premises, and there were twenty-one coats made there, upon an average, every week; so that, altogether, the sweater's clear gains out of the men were L5, 9s. every week. These are the profits of the sweater, and the earnings of the men engaged under him, when working for the first rate houses.
One L5 was slipped into her hand for her bairns. "My bairns don't require it," she replied, "and won't get it either, but it is put aside, till I see the Board, as the nest-egg of my Home for Girls and Women in Calabar.
As soon as he had scraped together a little money, he lent it to some poor devil with a hard landlord, at twenty per cent., and made him take half the loan in umbrellas or bamboos. By these means he got his foot into the ladder, and climbed upward and upward, till, at the age of forty, he had amassed L5,000. He then looked about for a wife.
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