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'Then there's the milkman. I've not paid him for four weeks. He hasn't sent a bill yet, but you can reckon it up; we have two penn'orth every day. 'That's four and eight, said Easton, writing it down. 'Anything else? 'One and seven to the greengrocer for potatoes, cabbage, and paraffin oil. 'Anything else? 'We owe the butcher two and sevenpence.
"Mother taught her to cook a fair treat these two years. She niver got anythin' to practise on in your 'ouse." "That's true," said Mrs Partridge, placidly. "I was never one to poison meself with me own cooking. When I was a girl I used ter buy a penn'orth of everythin', peas-pudden, saveloys, pies, brawn, trotters, Fritz, an' German sausage.
'Not counting the Provinces. His face brightened a little. 'Look here! said Pallant over the paper. 'I don't suppose you or those asinine J.P.'s knew it but your lawyer ought to have known that you've all put your foot in it most confoundedly over this assault case. 'What's the matter? said Woodhouse. 'It's ludicrous. It's insane. There isn't two penn'orth of legality in the whole thing.
Finding that his father would not be there for three-quarters of an hour or more, he ordered from the barmaid "nine penn'orth o' brandy and water hike, and the ink-stand," and having settled himself in the little parlour, composed himself to write that wonderful "walentine" to Mary.
One penn'orth of your most shining note, and two envelopes to match. Mind you, give me a paper with a good gloss on it, Mrs. Jones." Mrs. Jones stared at Hannah Martin; but fetching down a box of note-paper, prepared to wrap some sheets in tissue paper. "I shouldn't say Miss Primrose was ill," she remarked as she did so, "though she do seem worried, dear young lady."
A penn'orth of crumb of bread, assisted on its laborious passage by a penn'orth of the rinsings of beer, left the natural philosopher a ha'penny for dessert at the stall of an applewoman, where he withstood an inclination toward the juicy fruit and chose nuts.
"I knaw I knaw right well 't is so, dear Will, an' I'm sorry I spoke so quick." "I'll forgive 'e before you axes me, sweetheart. Awnly you must larn to trust me, an' theer 's no call for you to fear. Us must speak out sometimes, an' I did just now, an' 't is odds but some of them chaps, Grimbal included, may have got a penn'orth o' wisdom from me."
Not a person, not a piece of property, not a winder, not a horse, nor a dog, nor a cat, nor a bird, nor a fowl, nor a pig, but what he stoned, for want of an enlightened object. I put that enlightened object before him, and now he can turn his honest halfpenny by the three penn'orth a week. 'I wonder he has no competitors. 'He has plenty, Mr. Jasper, but he stones 'em all away.
For instance, when some pert young puppy would come forward, and civilly enough request his "one or two penn'orth of natives," Bruin would first insist on having the money paid down, and would then tantalise his customer by offering him the opened oyster and hastily withdrawing it just as the impatient jaws were about to close on the desired morsel, and so on to the end, to the vast irritation of many an irascible little animal.
I couldn't even get a ride homeward upon that screw without the man wanting a shilling for it, when my weight didn't take a penny out of the beast. I've saved a penn'orth or so of shoeleather to be sure; but the saddle was so rough wi' patches that 'a took twopence out of the seat of my best breeches. King George hev' ruined the town for other folks.
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