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Simon's breakfast lay only at the end of a long volume of prayers; and, having ascertained by careful experiment the minimum of time his father would accept for the gabbling of these empty Oriental sounds, he had fallen back on penny numbers to while away the hungry minutes.
The Austrian ambassador, in transmitting this money and these resolutions to the queen, urged that no sacrifice should be made to purchase peace with Prussia; affirming that the king, the Parliament, and the people of England were all roused to enthusiasm in behalf of Austria; and that England would spend its last penny, and shed its last drop of blood, in defense of the cause of Maria Theresa.
In Rome, Polybius tells us, nobody gives to any one unless he must do so, and no one pays a penny before it falls due, even among near relatives.
"That may be a bit flowery, as the sayin' is but I know myself he was sittin' over his boots day and night, to the very last. You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regular let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots." "Yes," I said, "he made good boots."
When his 'penny steamers' engaged the Dervish batteries he would watch, 'on tenter-hooks, a combat which might be fatal to the defence, but which, since he could not direct it, must be left to officers by turns timid and reckless: and in the dark hours of the night he could not even watch.
He endeavored to comfort himself by telling himself that they were certainly pseudo-creditors, to whom he did not in fact owe a penny. Mr. Barry could deal with them. But then his conscience reminded him that they had, in truth, been cheated, cheated by his father for his benefit. For every pound which they had received they would have claimed three or four. They would no doubt have cheated him.
His fellow trustees, such as his cousins Roger or Nicholas, his cousins-in-law Tweetyman and Spender, or his sister Cicely's husband all trusted him; he signed first, and where he signed first they signed after, and nobody was a penny the worse.
"And I must have a written undertaking from you, a document which my daughter can show if it be necessary, that you will never claim her society again or trouble her with any application." "You mistake me, Mr. Wharton. My wife goes with me to Guatemala." "Then I will not pay one penny. Why should I? What is your presence or absence to me except as it concerns her?
The general received him as his merit warranted, and explained to him our difficulties. Mr. Franklin, as Colonel Washington told me afterward, listened to it all with close attention, putting in a keen question now and then, and at the end said he believed he could secure us horses and wagons from his friends among the Pennsylvania Dutch, who were ever ready to turn an honest penny.
Each one was worth a denary, which was a coin worth about a shilling, or a quarter of a dollar. As the Dutch had pounds, shillings and pence, before the English had them, we see what d in the signs L s. d. means, that is, a denary, or a white penny, made of silver.
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