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The Canon had, I am sure, provided Lalage with a suitable amount of pocket money. I myself gave her five shillings the day before she left home. She ought not to feel poor. Compared to Hilda, who has one-and-sixpence, earned in the sweat of her brow, Lalage must seem a millionaire. "Do you know the kind of person who you hate and yet can't help loving although you are afraid of her?
"Verra weel, mam," she responded more affably, "thank you kindly; no, I couldna tak' it in hand to sell six pennyworth of that ginger-cake and let one-and-sixpence worth gae dry in the bakery. A beautiful day, mam! Won'erful blest in weather ye are! Let me open your umbrella for you, mam!" David Robb is the weaver of Pettybaw.
"And I footed it there, and that's sixteen. And I paid one-and-sixpence for beer and grub; s'help me I did." "Dan!" said a voice from the bed, rebuking him for the impropriety of his language. "Well; I beg pardon, but I did. And they guv' me two bob; just two plain shillings, by " "Dan!" "And I'd 've arned three-and-six here at brickmaking easy; that's what I wuld.
It was April now; but even in April that bleak northern fell was very cold. Nothing more inhospitable than that road could be seen. It was unsheltered, swept by every blast, very steep, and mercilessly oppressed by turnpikes. Twice in those seven miles one-and-sixpence was inexorably demanded from her. "But I know one gate always clears the other, when they are so near," she argued.
You think you know the meaning of poverty: you may; but you do not know what a young woman who wants to earn her bread honestly has to put up with, trudging through wet and cold, mile after mile, to give a lesson, paid for at the rate of one-and-sixpence or two shillings an hour. Julia took her eyes from her husband's face, and looked dreamily into the fire.
Perhaps she never possessed so much as the world gave her credit for. The sale of his effects, after payment of his funeral expenses, left only about one-and-sixpence in the pound to his creditors. Though constantly employed, the prices he received were small; and a thoroughly conscientious artist, he never spared time or labour upon the commissions he had undertaken.
He was a great contrast to the labourer who passed us afterwards, also bound for the city an old and grizzled monkey-faced man, with his head tied round with a ragged red cloth gun-case. His jellab hung in tatters, but he also carried a gun, and by a string a brace of partridges and a wild duck, which "bag," after some bargaining, became ours for the sum of one-and-sixpence.
Dr Grantly has not forgotten to remind Mr Harding how well satisfied with his one-and-sixpence a day old Joe Mutters would have been, and how injudicious it was on the part of Mr Harding to allow a radical from the town to get into the concern. Probably Dr Grantly forgot, at the moment, that the charity was intended for broken-down journeymen of Barchester.
'Two good beds, one-and-sixpence; supper and beer one shilling; total two shillings and sixpence, replied the Valiant Soldier.
Prince Eitel and Patsy lost regularly, sometimes as much as one-and-sixpence on an evening's play, which sent the Princess to bed a happy woman.
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