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Carrie arranged with Borset, the butterman, and ordered a pound of fresh butter, and a pound and a half of salt ditto for kitchen, and a shilling's worth of eggs. In the evening, Cummings unexpectedly dropped in to show me a meerschaum pipe he had won in a raffle in the City, and told me to handle it carefully, as it would spoil the colouring if the hand was moist.
He left the struggle to Radisson and retired to spend his days in quietness. Radisson did not cease to press his claim for the return of confiscated furs. He had a wife and four children to support; but, in spite of all his services to England and France, he did not own a shilling's worth of property in the whole world. From January to May he waited for the tardy justice of the French court.
But in the Gambia trade as Moore described it the unit or "bar" in rum, cloth and most other things became depreciated until in some commodities it was not above a shilling's value in English money. Iron itself, on the other hand, and crystal beads, brass pans and spreadeagle dollars appreciated in comparison.
You wear out at least a shilling's worth of boot leather, pay twopence for a roll and fourpence for a more villainous compound called coffee; come home in a state of inanition, cram down a quartern loaf and a quarter of a pound of rancid butter, washed down with weak tea; and if self-satisfaction and exhaustion combined are soporific, it is only to leave you a prey to nightmare.
In Colonial days in many parts of the country the shilling's value was placed at sixteen and two-thirds cents. Contests for the "pony purses" were consolation-shoots for those who had made no winning, and to gratify that element who for the love of the sport would keep the matches going until in the day's dimming light the sights of the gun could not be used.
Middle-class people these, bankers very likely, not wholly Pure of the taint of the shop; will at table d'hôte and restaurant Have their shilling's worth, their penny's pennyworth even: Neither man's aristocracy this, nor God's, God knoweth!
"Aren't you going to buy some stamps?" he asked, perfectly aware that Lord Newhaven had had his reasons for walking to the post-office. Lord Newhaven, who was being watched with affectionate interest from behind the counter by the grocer postmaster, went in, hit his head against a pendent ham, and presently emerged with brine in his hair and a shilling's worth of stamps in his hand.
"It is really heart-breaking that so much skill and ingenuity should be thrown away; but the fact is, gentlemen, that the excellent person who signed it had no property to bequeath!" "How?" "Not a shilling's worth. Allow me, sir, if you please. This piece of parchment, gentlemen, is, I have the pleasure to inform you, a marriage settlement."
After some feint of eating breakfast, Pete lit his pipe, called for a basket, and announced his intention of doing the marketing. "Coming for the mistress, are you, Capt'n?" "I'm a sort of a grass-widow, ma'am. What's your eggs to-day, Mistress Cowley?" "Sixteen this morning, sir, and right ones too. They were telling me you've been losing her." "Give me a shilling's worth, then.
I know mother used to say the chocolatey biscuits were dear, but I should think a shilling would get enough a shilling's a good deal." "Yes, it's twelve whole pence," said Uncle Geoff very seriously, as he took the money. "But if the biscuits cost more, you'll tell me, won't you, Uncle Geoff?"
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