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Updated: May 15, 2025
I am told that there is a probable dividend of sixpence-half-penny in the pound to come some day." Colonel Ray smoked on in silence. This was evidently news to him. "Awkward for you," he remarked at last. I laughed a little bitterly. I knew quite well that he was expecting me to continue, and I did so. "I sold my things at Magdalen, and paid my debts.
She gave me sixpence-half-penny in change, which puzzled my calculations. "You said fourpenny," said I, indicating the beer. "Yes, sir, but it's a pint," was the reply; and it was only when in after-years I learned that beer at fourpence a quart is known to some people as "fourpenny" that I got that part of the reckoning of the canvas bag straight in my own mind.
Saunders if she required any baby clothes. Mrs. Saunders said she had all she required. The parcel was made up, and they were preparing to leave, when Esther said "I may as well buy the material and make another set it will give me something to do in the afternoons. I think I should like to make them." We have some first-rate longcloth at sixpence-half-penny a yard."
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