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A plump white hand and wrist emerging took the can, and Daphne Wing's voice said: "Oh, where's the cream?" "Ain't got none." "Oh! I told you always two pennyworth at twelve o'clock." "Two penn'orth." The boy's eyes goggled. "Didn't you want to speak to her, miss?" He beat the closing door. "Lidy wants to speak to you! Good-mornin', miss." The figure of Daphne Wing in a blue kimono was revealed.
"Or if luck be against me, she is possibly a smart woman, that is to say, her conversation is a running fire of spiteful remarks at the expense of every one she knows, and of sneers at the expense of every one she doesn't. I always feel I could make a better woman myself, out of a bottle of vinegar and a penn'orth of mixed pins. Yet it usually takes one about ten minutes to get away from her.
And you drop in on the way at the Waterfield. dairy not Jenkins's: Jenkins's milk ain't good enough for them and tell 'em to send round two penn'orth of fresh this very minnit, do y'ear, John, this very minnit, as it's extremely pertickler.
It was about noon when he had completed the former preparation, and eaten such breakfast as his new London landlady had gotten for him. And the breakfast had not of itself been bad, for Mrs. Whereas had been a daughter of Themis all her life, waiting upon scions of the law since first she had been able to run for a penn'orth of milk.
His dim eyes were rheumy, and his chin trembled. An awful sight! In a flash I remembered him, and cried, "What, Doctor!" He said, "I don't know you; my memory's gone. Send for twopenn'orth or a penn'orth of beer. Pray do." My young friends, that man who begged for a pennyworth of muddy ale was first of all a brilliant soldier, then a brilliant lawyer, then a brilliant historian.
I thank you for your charming sympathy, and I beg you to accept in my uncle's name that salute by which his followers distinguish the faithful." And he thereupon kissed the blushing girl with a heartiness that restored her confidence in him completely. "Well," he said to himself as he retired with his candle, "I've managed to get a fair penn'orth out of it after all."
The boys are allers ready to chuck stones at him when they see him prowlin' round. He don't belong to no one." Tim felt still more sorry; if he had seen the dog before, he thought, he would have bought a "penn'orth" of liver for him instead of the chestnuts. Now he could do nothing for him.
All I ask is, as these young gents and ladies'll bring some parsley seed into the dream, and a penn'orth of radish seed, and threepenn'orth of onion, and I wouldn't mind goin' to fourpence or fippence for mixed kale, only I ain't got a brown, so I don't deceive you. And there's one thing more, you might take away the parson.
Of the latter commodity he had always a grim little heap, on which lay a little wooden measure which had no discernible inside, and was considered to represent the penn'orth appointed by Magna Charta. Whether from too much east wind or no it was an easterly corner the stall, the stock, and the keeper, were all as dry as the Desert.
This worthy was a tall and bony Jersey Protestant with a raucous voice, who strode up our street several times a week, carrying a yoke across his shoulders, from the ends of which hung ropes of onions. He used to shout, at abrupt intervals, in a tone which might wake the dead: Here's your rope . . . . To hang the Pope . . . . And a penn'orth of cheese to choke him.
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