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Milray seemed surprised at the good round sum, as the landlady thought it, which she asked in the girl's behalf. The Milrays stayed through August, and Mrs. Milray was the ruling spirit of the great holiday of the summer, at Middlemount.
I found Clarence alone in his quarters, drowned in melancholy; and in place of the electric light, he had reinstituted the ancient rag-lamp, and sat there in a grisly twilight with all curtains drawn tight. He sprang up and rushed for me eagerly, saying: "Oh, it's worth a billion milrays to look upon a live person again!" He knew me as easily as if I hadn't been disguised at all.
But I didn't scare at all. I rigged up my pile-driver, and allowed myself fifteen minutes to drive him into the earth drive him all in drive him in till not even the curve of his skull should show above ground. Here is the way I started in on him. I asked: "What do you pay a pound for salt?" "A hundred milrays." "We pay forty. What do you pay for beef and mutton when you buy it?"
In the gun were two sizes wee mustard-seed shot, and another sort that were several times larger. They were money. The mustard-seed shot represented milrays, the larger ones mills. So the gun was a purse; and very handy, too; you could pay out money in the dark with it, with accuracy; and you could carry it in your mouth; or in your vest pocket, if you had one.
I found Clarence alone in his quarters, drowned in melancholy; and in place of the electric light, he had reinstituted the ancient rag-lamp, and sat there in a grisly twilight with all curtains drawn tight. He sprang up and rushed for me eagerly, saying: "Oh, it's worth a billion milrays to look upon a live person again!" He knew me as easily as if I hadn't been disguised at all.
Yes, I made various acquaintances in the hamlet and a thing that gratified me a good deal was to find our new coins in circulation lots of milrays, lots of mills, lots of cents, a good many nickels, and some silver; all this among the artisans and commonalty generally; yes, and even some gold but that was at the bank, that is to say, the goldsmith's.
Milray seemed surprised at the good round sum, as the landlady thought it, which she asked in the girl's behalf. The Milrays stayed through August, and Mrs. Milray was the ruling spirit of the great holiday of the summer, at Middlemount.
That was a neat hit; it made the color come. "It varieth somewhat, but not much; one may say seventy-five milrays the pound." "We pay thirty-three. What do you pay for eggs?" "Fifty milrays the dozen." "We pay twenty. What do you pay for beer?" "It costeth us eight and one-half milrays the pint." "We get it for four; twenty-five bottles for a cent. What do you pay for wheat?"
In the gun were two sizes wee mustard-seed shot, and another sort that were several times larger. They were money. The mustard-seed shot represented milrays, the larger ones mills. So the gun was a purse; and very handy, too; you could pay out money in the dark with it, with accuracy; and you could carry it in your mouth; or in your vest pocket, if you had one.
"Couldn't he have come back this aftanoon to see me, if he ain't goin' till five?" she demanded jealously. "He said he couldn't come back," Clementina answered sadly. The woman turned her head on her pillow and looked at the girl's face. "Oh!" she said for all comment. The Milrays came a month later, to seek a milder sun than they had left burning in Florence.
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