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"At the rate of nine hundred milrays the bushel." "We pay four hundred. What do you pay for a man's tow-linen suit?" "Thirteen cents." "We pay six. What do you pay for a stuff gown for the wife of the laborer or the mechanic?" "We pay eight cents, four mills." "Well, observe the difference: you pay eight cents and four mills, we pay only four cents." I prepared now to sock it to him.
She found that Lord Lioncourt knew of our revolution generally, but was ignorant of such particulars as the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Surrender of Cornwallis, as well as the throwing of the Tea into Boston Harbor; he was much struck by this incident, and said, And quite right, he was sure. He told Clementina that her friends the Milrays had taken the steamer for London in the morning.
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?"
"Twenty-five milrays a day; that is to say, a quarter of a cent." The smith's face beamed with joy. He said: "With us they are allowed the double of it! And what may a mechanic get carpenter, dauber, mason, painter, blacksmith, wheelwright, and the like?" "On the average, fifty milrays; half a cent a day." "Ho-ho! With us they are allowed a hundred!
"It is of no consequence," I said, accompanying the words with a gesture of the most utter indifference; "give me the grand total, please." The clerk leaned against the tree to stay himself, and said: "Thirty-nine thousand one hundred and fifty milrays!"
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?"
Her mother put before her the most crucial questions she could think of, in her letter, and then gave her full leave from her father as well as herself to go if she wished. Clementina had rather it had been too late to go with the Milrays, but she felt bound to own her decision when she reached it; and Mrs. Milray, whatever her real wish was, made it a point of honor to help get Mrs.
"Then that is settled," said Clementina with a sigh of relief; and she thanked the vice-consul for his offer to write to the Milrays for her, and said that she would rather write herself. She meant to write as soon as she heard from Mr. Hinkle, which could not be long now, for then she could be independent of the offers of help which she dreaded from Miss Milray, even more than from Mrs.
"At the rate of nine hundred milrays the bushel." "We pay four hundred. What do you pay for a man's tow-linen suit?" "Thirteen cents." "We pay six. What do you pay for a stuff gown for the wife of the laborer or the mechanic?" "We pay eight cents, four mills." "Well, observe the difference: you pay eight cents and four mills, we pay only four cents." I prepared now to sock it to him.
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.
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