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It puts one in good spirits. It's just as though one were rich, and made a thousand pounds. I daresay" she looked, awestruck, at the Burne-Jones sketch "that's worth our whole income. But we're very happy. We never fret. Lydia and Susy both help in the housework. And I make their blouses." "How clever of you!
The fish were from a pound and a half to three pounds in weight, and of the same species as those found in the tanks in the neighbourhood. They were all dead and dry. A fall of fish occurred at Allahabad, during a storm in May, 1835; they were of the chowla species, and were found dead and dry after the storm had passed over the district.
As he pocketed the cheque he asked for the name of the brokers who were employed to buy the shares. But here Melmotte demurred 'No, my friend, said Melmotte; 'you are only entitled to shares for £600 pounds now. I will see that the thing is put right. So Sir Felix departed with £200 only. Marie had said that she could get £200.
Well, knowing I'd no chick nor chiel left, and nobody with any interest in me, I thought, faith, if I can be of any use to my fellow-creatures after I'm gone they are welcome to my services; so I said I'd think it over, and would most likely agree and take the ten pounds. Now this is a secret, miss, between us two. The money would be very useful to me; and I see no harm in it."
"I look at the hour-hand of a watch for ten minutes and don't see it move, but I do see that it has in reality passed over a very small but appreciable space in that time." "Just so," said the Professor, "I will ere long show you the same thing in regard to the ice." "I'll bet you ten thousand pounds you don't," returned the Captain, with an assured nod.
There is above six Thousand Pounds' worth of Furniture come from London to be put up when the rooms are completely finished; and then, woe be to the Person who is Housekeeper at Invermay! And by the tail of the document, which is torn, I see she goes on to ask the bereaved family to seek her a new place.
The Earl of Falmouth, who laid the stone, contributed a thousand pounds towards the edifice; his mother gave three hundred pounds for a peal of bells; and others of the gentry who were present contributed; so that upwards of eighteen hundred pounds was promised that day.
Thornton," said I, "if I knew you better, and could serve you more, you might apply to me for a more real assistance than any bagatelle I could afford you would be. If twenty pounds would really be of service to you, I will lend it you, upon this condition, that you never ask me for another farthing." Thornton's face brightened. "A thousand, thousand " he began.
I've the training of them every morning for a couple of hours, and thirty pounds a year paid every month. Jack and I make enough between us to support the family." "You don't really mean it?" gasped Lottie, horrified.
As I went to Lord Strafford's I passed through Sheffield, which is one of the foulest towns in England in the most charming situation; there are two-and-twenty thousand inhabitants making knives and scissors: they remit eleven thousand pounds a week to London. One man there has discovered the art of plating copper with silver; I bought a pair of candlesticks for two guineas that are quite pretty.
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