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In the years of his prosperity and the remembrance did him credit Johnson could never forget that Savage and himself had been poor together, and had often wandered through London with hardly a penny to show between them.
It was a penny popular affair, containing condensed information about innumerable subjects, no fiction, and little poetry. The woodcuts were of the crudest and most frightful sort. It passed through the hands of several editors and several publishers.
O'Shanaghgan with money in her pocket was a very different woman from Mrs. O'Shanaghgan without a penny. She enjoyed making Nora presentable, and had excellent taste and a keen eye for a bargain. She fitted up her daughter with a modest but successful wardrobe, bought her a proper trunk to hold her belongings, and saw her on board the steamer for Holyhead.
A tumbler of pulque which costs them a penny they indulge in, but drinks at fifteen or twenty cents each, and in small portions at that, are quite beyond their means. A somewhat peculiar effect of pulque drinking was also mentioned to us. The people who partake of it freely have an aversion to other stimulants, and prefer it to any and all others without regard to cost.
Here you are, sir! Black your boots, sir? Shine your trotters, sir? Mat. That'll do; that'll do, Bill! Famous! Would you like a tart? Bill. Just wouldn't I, then! Shine your boooooots! Mat. Do hold your tongue, Bill. There's a penny for a tart. Bill. Thank you, Mattie. Thank you. Exit into the shop. Please, ma'am! Please, ma'am! I likes 'em too. I likes 'em more 'n Bill. Mat. No there's a penny!
But it wa'n't what he said, so much as how he was sayin' it, that got me int'rested. There's some voices you don't have to hear but once to remember a lifetime, an this was one of that kind. It was one of these husky baritones, like what does the coonsongs for the punky records they put into the music boxes at the penny arcades.
Occasionally he preened his feathers; but he did it in a bored, awkward way, as if forced on account of his valet's absence into unfamiliar details of toilet quite beneath his dignity. Now and then he would scream. It is hard to believe that such a bird can have such a voice. He always lost caste in our eyes when he had his little, choked-up penny whistle going.
John, New Brunswick, the first tri-weekly and penny paper in the Maritime Provinces, which he conducted for a quarter of a century, until he disposed of it to Mr. Edward Willis, under whose editorial supervision it has always exercised considerable influence in the public affairs of the province.
Madam Liberality had seen such a pincushion in Podmore's work-basket. She had a shell of the kind, and the village carpenter would always let her put a stick into his glue-pot if she went to the shop. But then, if emery were only a penny a pound, Madam Liberality had not a farthing to buy a quarter of a pound with.
"There!" said Vautrin, looking at Eugene, "yesterday she had not a penny; this morning she has several millions to her fortune." "I say, M. Eugene!" cried Mme. Vauquer, "you have landed on your feet!" At this exclamation, Father Goriot looked at the student, and saw the crumpled letter still in his hand. "You have not read it through! What does this mean?
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