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Bread and pence, at the very lowest, two shillings and six-pence per week. Now, if we reckon one shilling and six-pence, at the very lowest rate, for washing, lodging, clothing, and firing, which are all found in plenty and very good of the sort, he receives the value of four shillings per week.
All accounts are kept in rix-dollars and stivers, which, here at least, are mere nominal coins, like our pound sterling. The rix-dollar is equal to forty-eight stivers, about four shillings and six-pence English currency. It was thought unnecessary to correct them to the present times in this place. The Passage from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope.
"Three shillings, six-pence," he counted the coins into the cabby's grimy and bloated paw; and added quietly: "The exact distance is rather less than, four miles, my man; your fare, precisely two shillings. You may keep the extra eighteen pence, for being such a conscientious blackguard, or talk it over with the officer here. Please yourself."
The silver rims alone will sell for double money. 'A fig for the silver rims, cried my wife, in a passion: 'I dare swear they won't sell for above half the money at the rate of broken silver, five shillings an ounce. 'You need be under no uneasiness, cried I, 'about selling the rims; for they are not worth six-pence, for I perceive they are only copper varnished over. 'What, cried my wife, 'not silver, the rims not silver! 'No, cried I, 'no more silver than your saucepan, 'And so, returned she, 'we have parted with the Colt, and have only got a groce of green spectacles, with copper rims and shagreen cases!
Florence stood looking at me, and there was a smile on her face that she, with great difficulty restrained from breaking into a decided ha! ha! Just then I would have sold myself to any reliable man for a six-pence, and thirty days credit.
The anonymous accusers were Blair and Holker, men known to Edgar and Waters, but not listened to by Charles. He says, to James, that the English want a Restoration, but have 'lost all martial spirit. To Edgar he gave warning that, if measures were not promptly taken, the Loch Arkaig hoard would be embezzled to the last six-pence.
You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times. You tell a man, "I am sorry you had such bad weather the last day of your journey, and were so much wet." You don't care six-pence whether he is wet or dry.
Six-pence a box." "Got any holders?" "Holders? Don't ask. Haven't seen one this year." "Got any toffee ?" "Cough-drops two-pence an ounce nothing else left." "Give me four ounces." He watched her weighing them in the little brass scales. "You've not got much of a Christmas show," he said. "Don't talk about Christmas, as far as sweets is concerned.
The poor woman at whose house I lodged, compassionating my state, got me into the hospital; and the family where I received the hurt, sent me five shillings, three and six-pence of which I gave at my admittance I know not for what. I cannot give you an adequate idea of the wretchedness of an hospital; every thing is left to the care of people intent on gain.
While the general searched for that English memento, six-pence, Lady Cecilia repeated, "Marshal Turenne! I do not understand." "Yes, if you recollect," said Helen, "you do." "I dare say I know, but I don't remember," said Cecilia. "It was only," said Helen, "that the same thing had happened to Marshal Turenne, that he gave the same advice to a little child."
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