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But there had been so many occasions on which he had never done his duty; times when he was tempted to actual defiance of it, when a wistful calculating look in the eyes of some seedy scholar would knock all the moral fibre out of him, and a two and sixpenny book would go for ninepence or a shilling.
I put aside the elaborate and irreproachable volumes in which Mathers and his staff had been entering the tickets at the time when he was seized with illness, and, with the help of a sixpenny memorandum book and half a dozen smart bank clerks, succeeded in allotting and posting the whole of the thirty thousand tickets between ten o'clock on Wednesday night and eight o'clock on Thursday morning.
The first great boom in aeronautics was beginning. Grubb and Bert heard of it in a music-hall, then it was driven home to their minds by the cinematograph, then Bert's imagination was stimulated by a sixpenny edition of that aeronautic classic, Mr. George Griffith's "Clipper of the Clouds," and so the thing really got hold of them.
H n* told me, when I was in Edinburgh, that we should never find copper enough, judging from the specimens I showed him, to make a pair of sixpenny knee-buckles and I cannot see that those samples on the table below differ much in quality." * Probably Dr. Hutton, the celebrated geologist. "The learned doctor is not infallible, I presume?"
When she came round to me she'd only smile and touch me playful under the chin; and that made the sixpenny seats say, ''Ow womanly! or, 'Only think! able to ride like that and so fond of children! Matter of fact, she 'ad none; and her 'usband, Mike O'Halloran, used to beat her for it sometimes, when he'd had a drop of What-killed-Aunty. He was an Irishman."
"In crossing the ferry early in the summer, we had spoken faithfully to this ferryman, and had sent him the 'Life of Robert Annan' by post. They had been schoolfellows together, and after reading the book, he got many others to read it also. This small sixpenny gift, accompanied by prayer, had done a work.
All at once she felt a horrid pain in her throat. . . . Miss Tod appeared, fresh from the joys of strong tea. 'Oh, lassie, ha'e ye hurted yersel'? Christina choked, recovered herself and cried: 'I've sold a blighter a sixpenny notebook for threepence, an' I'll never get over it as long as I live. B but I hope that'll no be long! Just then Heaven sent a customer.
But on the child's answering, 'No, thank you, I only want a sixpenny doll not dressed, the Dutch giantess was removed, and we once more asserted our humble claims. 'That seems to me a very pretty one, said the mama, pointing to my next neighbour.
The strange noises, the confusion, the shouting and roaring, amid which all this is done, too, would put to shame the most turbulent sixpenny gallery that ever yelled through a boxing-night.
"But please let me see one. What is the price?" "These fancy baskets, ma'am, you know, are another figure. These are not intended for fruit. These are eighteen pence apiece, ma'am." Daisy turned the baskets and the price over. They were very neat! they would hold as many berries as the sixpenny ones, and look pretty too, as for a festival they should.
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