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He declared 'twas a kind of apple he much fancied; and he called for a penn'orth every day till the tree was cleared. It ended in his calling for her. ''Twas a thousand pities they didn't jine up at once and ha' done wi' it. 'Well; better late than never, if so be he'll have her now.
And now, boy, put your trust in God; run about and earn your penn'orth of potatoes as best you can. Life is about to become a hideous inferno. Let us pass quickly over this phase. Amid this lamentable chaos, my love for the insect ought to have gone under. Not at all. It would have survived the raft of the Medusa. I still remember a certain pine cockchafer met for the first time.
When the soi-disant widow had taken the basin of thin poor slop that stood for the rich concoction of the former time, the hag opened a little basket behind the fire, and looking up slily, whispered, "Just a thought o' rum in it? smuggled, you know say two penn'orth 'twill make it slip down like cordial!"
And for my wife, old man, send her home straight, or it will be the worse for her. Ha, ha! You carry it with a high hand, too! But it isn't hanging yet for a man to keep a penn'orth of poison for his own purposes, and have it taken from him by two old crazy jolter-heads who go and act a play about it. Ha, ha! Do you see the door?
"Never was such apples sold in the public streets before! Sweet as flowers, and sound as a bell. Who says the poor ain't looked after," cried the fellow, with ferocious irony, "when they can have such apple-sauce as this to their loin of pork? Here's nobby apples; here's a penn'orth for your money. Sold again! Hullo, you! you look hungry. Catch! there's an apple for nothing, just to taste.
He lifted himself on his hind legs, and laid his missive on the counter. The shopwoman you know her, Mrs. Traill unfolded the paper and read the order. 'Clever dog that, sir, said she. 'To fetch and carry? said I, indifferently. 'More than that, sir; you shall see. The order is for two penn'orth of snuff. The dog knows he is to take back fourpence.
He was in the Three Widders at Aldgate, in the saloon bar which is a place where you get a penn'orth of ale in a glass and pay twopence for it and, arter being told by the barmaid that she had got one monkey at 'ome, he got into conversation with another man wot was in there. He was a big man with a black moustache and a red face, and 'is fingers all smothered in di'mond rings.
She was so occupied when her mother came in. "Why have you shut the shop?" said Mrs. Hopkins in an annoyed voice. "It is only a very little past half-past eight, and I saw two poor women outside. They wanted a penn'orth of paper each. They said, 'We thought you always kept open until nine o'clock, Now it will spread all over the place that I shut at half-past eight. Why did you do it, Susy?
"Well, we're going to try. You have some worms ready for me a penn'orth." "Tuppence, sir." "A penny. Why, you've just had a penny for nothing." "All right, master. Going?" "Yes, I'm showing him round," said Mercer. "Come along, Burry, we'll go and see old Lomax now."
Or think what such an addition means to those working-women from the North, who at the same time protested in Trafalgar Square against the compulsory insurance because the payment of threepence a week would lose them two of their dinners twice the penn'orth of bread and ha'porth of cheese that they always enjoyed for dinner!
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