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The day arrives, the agent or the land-steward looks over the proposals, and after singling out the highest, bidder, declares him tenant, as a matter of course. Now, perhaps, this said tenant does not possess a shilling in the world, nor a shilling's worth.
The college needed no change in its organization or government. That which it did need was the kindness, the patronage, the bounty of the legislature; not a mock elevation to the character of a university, without the solid benefit of a shilling's donation to sustain the character; not the swelling and empty authority of establishing institutes and other colleges.
There was a bitter sense of humour in the story. She laughed at it loud, uncontrolled laughter that rang as empty and as hollow as an echo. "Give me what you can," she added. "Anything above a shilling's better than fourpence." "Is that what you're down to?" "Um " He took three sovereigns out of his pocket, and gave them to her.
Martin looked up from his desk when they appeared, and requested his daughter to check a bundle of postal orders. He was about to reach the street quick on Furneaux's heels when the little man turned suddenly. "By the way, don't you want a shilling's worth of stamps?" he said. Grant smiled comprehension, and went back to the counter, where Doris herself served him.
I would have the Lord Chancellor of Beasts good-humoured, not jocose. I treated the elephant, who was a noble fellow, to a shilling's worth of cakes. I wish I could have enlarged the space in which so much bulk and wisdom is confined. He kept swinging his head from side to side, looking as if he marvelled why all the fools that gaped at him were at liberty, and he cooped up in the cage.
He went straight to the shop he had just left, and bought another shilling's worth of string. When he got home, he concealed nothing from Robert, whom he found seated in the barn, with his fiddle, waiting his return. Robert started to his feet.
But by taking off all the different duties upon beer and ale, and by trebling the malt tax, or by raising it from six to eighteen shilling's upon the quarter of malt, a greater revenue, it is said, might be raised by this single tax, than what is at present drawn from all those heavier taxes.
And not from the lips of the haughty patrician chief, rising from the dust of ages at the spell of genius, to encounter his old plebeian vanquishers, and fight his long-lost battles o'er again, at a showman's bidding, for a showman's greed to be stung anew into patrician scorn to repeat those rattling volleys of the old martial Latin wrath, 'in states unborn' and 'accents then unknown, for an hour's idle entertainment, for 'a six-pen'orth or shilling's worth' of gaping amusement to a playhouse throng, not NOT from any such source came that utterance.
He had found out that the other coins were French and Italian; and one coin said they were in this town, and another said they were in that, but the shilling was unable to make out or imagine what they meant. A man certainly cannot see much of the world if he is tied up in a bag, and this was really the shilling's fate.
Still, one wished for a little violence besides the violence of the sun and of the man who tried to sell you a shilling's worth of sausage and who said he was "the only firm, the only firm in the place." Camden Town on a Saturday night could give points to Derby Day for colour and uproar. Derby Day is so big, perhaps, that it is frightened of itself. But I forgot. There was one violent man.
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