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And maybe a copy of Ezra Pound's poems. I do hope she's not what Helen calls a bolshevixen." There was nothing bolshevik about a glittering limousine that drew up at the corner of Gissing and Swinburne streets early that afternoon.
He picked it slowly to pieces, drawing full draughts of air into his lungs. "Fifteen," he jerked out, "one time and another. 'Cumulated, you know." Pausing, he added, in a matter-of-fact voice, "What I've took would come to less'n a pound's worth, altogether."
"Hugh, do you remember when we used to go to Sunday-school at Dr. Pound's church, and Mrs. Ewan taught us? I really believed something then that Moses brought down the ten commandments of God from the mountain, all written out definitely for ever and ever. It ought to be so oughtn't it? That is the ideal." "Yes but aren't you confusing ?" I began. "I am confusing and confused.
"Asking your pardon, sir, they are charity children. They give me three francs a month and a pound's weight of soap for each of them." "But it must cost you twice as much as that to keep them, good woman?" "That is just what M. Benassis tells me, sir; but if other folk will board the children for the same money, one has to make it do.
For he would have beheld serenely established in that former abode of Calvinism one of the most reprehensible of exotic abominations, a 'mariage de convenance; nor could he have failed to observe, moreover, the complacency with which the descendants of his friends, the pew holders in Dr. Pound's church, regarded the matter: and not only these, but the city at large.
He went to the cook's shanty, ate a hot breakfast of griddle-cakes and bacon, drank a pint of strong coffee, and hunted up MacDougall. Sandy was just coming from Thorpe's house. "He's a queer guinea, that Thorpe," said the engineer, after their first greeting. "He doesn't pretend to do a pound's work. Notice his hands when you see him again, Phil.
They were chiefly Italian coins, some five-franc pieces, a silver medallion inclosing a little image of his patron saint, San Giacomo, one solid English guinea, and somewhat more than a pound's worth in English silver. Jackeymo put back the foreign coins, saying prudently, "One will lose on them here;" he seized the English coins, and counted them out.
"Neither of whom is particularly anxious to be riddled with a pound's worth of farthing bullets!" But the words had barely passed the boy's lips before the rifle had been dropped to the ground and the man had sprung forward excitedly to grab a hand of each boy in his great fists. "Faix! but this is a fine sight for sore eyes!" he exclaimed, as he vigorously pumped the arms up and down.
The working-farmer settling in the desert felt that for every pound's worth of improvements made by muscle and money he would have to account to the tax-collector at the next assessment. Nevertheless the Conservative politicians rallied round the doomed tax. It was a good machine for raising indispensable revenue.
When competition is really keen a lot of little things that you would hardly notice make all the difference. For one thing, I get a free hand in the matter of subscribing to local bazaars and race-meetings. I've often taken as much as a pound's worth of tickets for a five-pound note that some priest was raffling in aid of a new chapel.
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