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I put that enlightened object before him, and now he can turn his honest halfpenny by the three pennorth a week." "I wonder he has no competitors." "He has plenty, Mr. Jasper, but he stones 'em all away." "He still keeps behind us," repeats Jasper, looking back, "is he to follow us?"
The man looked round, and muttered something. "I'm sorry to see you coming out of such a place, my man," added the captain. "Well, but I'm not drunk," said the other. "Perhaps not, but you're just on the right tack to get drunk. Come, tell me what you've had." "I've only had seventeen pints of ale and three pennorth of gin."
'Please a pennorth o' alum to tak' smell out o' a bit o' elephant. Mr. Critchlow hated boys. "'I'll alum ye! says I, and I did. I alummed him out o' my shop with a pestle. If there'd been one there'd been twenty between opening and nine o'clock. 'George, I says to my apprentice, 'shut shop up. My old friend John Baines is going to his long home to- day, and I'll close.
But at last, up by Bonnington, we found one, and tying our noble steed to the sign-post that says how many miles it is to Ashford, we cast a hasty glance round, and finding no one in sight disappeared in the wood with our bundles. We went in just ordinary creatures. We came out gipsies of the deepest dye, for we had got a pennorth of walnut stain from Mr.
Ailey Dogherty was buying a crock wid me, and Nelly shouts over to her from where she sot like a queen on her stool, 'Ailey, says she, 'here's a betther one for three fardens less, an' another farden 'ill get you a pennorth o' salt. An', indeed, Ailey walks over, manely enough, an' tuck her at her word. Why, flesh an' blood couldn't bear it."
She had colloquies with the greengrocer about the pennorth of turnips which Mr. Sedley loved; she kept an eye upon the milkman and the baker's boy; and made visitations to the butcher, who sold hundreds of oxen very likely with less ado than was made about Mrs.
In his ignorance he took the alteration for one of great moral significance, and was wonderfully pleased with himself. His natural kindness, for instance, towards the poor and suffering such at least as were not offensive was quickened. He took no additional jot of trouble about them, only gave a more frequent penny to such as begged of him, and had more than a pennorth of relief in return.
But what with Sir Derek chewing his lip 'alf the time and his mother acting about as matey as a pennorth of ice-cream, she didn't have a chance. As for the guv'nor,-well, I wish you could have seen him, that's all. You know, Ellen, sometimes I'm not altogether easy in my mind about the guv'nor's mental balance.
"Anudder pennorth for Blo-ub!" he gurgled, and added jealously, one hand on the corpse, "He's moine. Oi killed un first." "Never mind about that! This way." There was one chance and one only. The door blocked one end; the Gentleman the other; the only exit was the man-hole. They must risk it. "Here, Blob! up here! quick now! give us a leg!" Blob gave him a heave.
"You can't show a finger.... They've nearly had Blob already ain't they, Blob?" Blob, cuddling in the corner, shook his head cunningly. "Oi've had them," he said. "Three pennorth of em," pointing to the little pile of coppers at his side. "I'm giving him a penny apiece for each Gang-er he gets, and twice the money for a Frenchman," the Parson explained.
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