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He did it, and those bottles and feathers are some of the charms. We pay for having them renewed every year. It costs a tidy bit, but less than the watchmen and police did." "And have the thefts stopped?" "Absolutely. There hasn't been a shilling's worth of stuff touched since the obeah-man was here." "But obeah wouldn't have any effect on East Indian coolies," objected Stuart.
Who'd think as I'd iver stood again all comers for miles and miles around for the ten-score yards? I did though!" "Didst?" cried Snac. "Then tek a shillin' and get a drop o' good stuff wi' it, an' warm up that old gizzard o' thine wi' thinkin' o' thy younger days." And away he swaggered, carrying his shilling's worth with him in the commendations of the rustic circle.
The business smacked of disproportion, he considered, although too well-bred to say as much; for here was a big ruthless league betwixt earth and sea, and with no loftier end than to crush a fop and a coquette, whose speedier extinction had been dear at the expense of a shilling's worth of arsenic!
Esther thought it was a bad time to attempt to get her own shilling's worth she fought her way towards another fishmonger. There was a kindly, weather-beaten old fellow with whom Esther had often chaffered job-lots when fortune smiled on the Ansells. Him, to her joy, Esther perceived she saw a stack of gurnards on his improvised slab, and in imagination smelt herself frying them.
"In which case, I should like to know, sir, what you consider " "A shilling put down a shilling. Surely a shilling's enough?" "So be it," said Mrs. Hall, taking up the table-cloth and beginning to spread it over the table. "If you're satisfied, of course " He turned and sat down, with his coat-collar toward her. All the afternoon he worked with the door locked and, as Mrs.
We soon ran up to the Hard, when the man, stepping out, offered Jim a sixpence. "A shilling's the fare, sir," said Jim, keeping back his hand. "No, no, you young rascal! I know better; but I'll give you another sixpence if you will show me the way to Mr Gull's." "You may find it by yourself," answered Jim, indignantly, as he picked up the sixpence thrown to him by our fare, who walked off.
But, seeing a chance to tantalize him, I said: "Doctor, who do you want me to divide with?" "With me," he shouted. "Whom do you suppose?" "Well, thunderation! Doctor; it was my property we traded off. Why should I give you half the profits?" "Great Heavens!" he screamed. "Think of it! One shilling's worth of property!"
'What with this person not being at home, and that person being expected home in the afternoon, and so forth, the inquiry took me three days. On the evening of the third day, coming over Waterloo Bridge from the Surrey side of the river, quite beat, and very much vexed and disappointed, I thought I'd have a shilling's worth of entertainment at the Lyceum Theatre to freshen myself up.
Riches and work and honour hold the hands, and only death will tear them away. With them all is a bitterness and a glory greater than the shine of what men count joy. But in that day when you eat with kings the desire of life shall pass from you!" Hullo, old boy! He gave you a good shilling's worth, anyhow! Though it was rather a nasty hit that at your Scottish national character!
We wish to become rich men, not in order to enjoy ease and comfort all that any one man can taste of those may be purchased anywhere for 200 pounds per annum but that our houses may be bigger and more gaudily furnished than our neighbors'; that our horses and servants may be more numerous; that we may dress our wives and daughters in absurd but expensive clothes; and that we may give costly dinners of which we ourselves individually do not eat a shilling's worth.
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