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Never mind what for I was there. And at precisely ten minutes to three o'clock I saw Bassett Oliver." "How did you know him?" demanded Copplestone. "Cause I've had many a sixpenn'orth of him at both Northborough and Norcaster," answered Spurge. "Seen him a dozen times, I have, and knew him well enough, even if I'd only viewed him from the the-ayter gallery.

Trotter, as the gen'l'm'n said, wen he got two doubtful shillin's and sixpenn'orth o' pocket-pieces for a good half-crown. 'It is indeed, replied Job, shaking his head. 'There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears, said Job, with a look of momentary slyness 'tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones. 'No, they ain't, replied Sam expressively. 'They may be put on, Mr.

The charge was exorbitant, considering the small quantity and damaged state of the goods, yet Dan carried off his little packet quite contentedly, announcing that he would step over again for another sixpenn'orth next week, when, as Isaac reluctantly admitted, a fresh supply of stationery would have arrived.

"Not much baggage I see that " he exclaimed; "and, Lord be thanked! no trunks. Aha, my dear" he turned to Rhoda "you remember your lesson, do ye? Now, mark me I'll remember you for it. Do you know, my dear," he said to Rhoda confidentially, "that sixpenn'orth of chaff which I made the cabman pay for there was the cream of it! that was better than Peruvian bark to my constitution.

But sure enough we must all of us put up wid growin' good for nothin' sometime, unless we happint to ha' never been worth anythin' to begin wid. And he wished he had a penny ped him for every one of that sort he'd met in the coorse of his life." This cynical disquisition was not very enlightening. However next week when Dan slipped over again for his second sixpenn'orth, Mr.

Freemoult," said the reckless hairdresser, "if you can't give me no better value, I don't mind laying out another sixpence in questions." "Put your questions, then, by all means; and I'll give you your fair sixpenn'orth of answers. Now, then, I'm ready for you. What's your difficulty? Out with it." I I can't remember how it ended, myself."

He cut and cut, long-stalked flowers with leaf and bud, and thrust them into his left hand, his knife cutting and his hand grasping the flower in one movement, while his eye selected the best blossom at a glance. At last there were so many that I grew fidgety. "I said sixpenn'orth, sir, flowers and strawberries," I ventured to remark. "Not deaf, my lad," he replied with a grim smile.

It's true you get a lot of them for the money, and they are not bad fun for the first two or three dozen, but you get jolly sick of them before you've let off your sixpenn'orth. And the only amusing way is not allowed: it is putting them in the fire.

In his pocket was an eight-ounce bottle, containing a meagre sixpenn'orth of brandy for Shepherd Toller. Snarley fingered the bottle, and then, with quick resolution, withdrew his hand. "For the life o' me," he said, "I couldn't remember where I was. I felt as though the hillside were whirlin' round, carryin' me with it. And then I felt as though I were sinkin' into the ground.

I turned a little red, for it sounded insulting for a market gardener to speak to me like that, for I never forgot that my father had been a captain in an Indian regiment, and was killed fighting in the Sikh war. I did not answer, but drew myself up a little, before saying rather consequentially: "Sixpenn'orth of flowers and strawberries good ones."