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Updated: June 27, 2025
On this occasion Bob Lumpy and Pat Stiver had met and joined hands in great delight, not unmingled with surprise. "Well, who'd ever have expected to find you here?" said Bob. "Ah, who indeed?" echoed Pat. "The fact is, I came to be near you, Bob." "But how did it happen? Who got you the sitivation? Look alive! Don't be long-winded, I see they're gittin' our boat ready." "This is 'ow it was, Bob.
They simply laid a tax of a stiver a pound on the commodity, or about six per cent, ad valorem; and this was a more wholesome way of serving the State than by abridging the liberty of the people in the choice of personal attire.
If she lives alone and conducts herself decently I'll make her an allowance say four or five hundred a year. If she lives with a lover or tries to force her way in here I won't give her a stiver. Now, Selincourt, you had better use your influence or you'll have her planted on you directly Lawrence gets sick of her.
'Sent him to hell before me! replied the miscreant. 'Wretch, said Mac-Morlan, 'you have crowned a life spent without a single virtue with the murder of your own miserable accomplice! 'Virtue? exclaimed the prisoner. 'Donner! I was always faithful to my shipowners always accounted for cargo to the last stiver.
A small sum of money, however, sent from Brussels, quelled this untimely insubordination. Meghem then set forth to effect his junction with his colleague, having assured the Governor- general that the war would be ended in six days. The beggars had not a stiver, he said, and must disband or be beaten to pieces as soon as Aremberg and he had joined forces.
The "seven stiver people", spies of government, who for that paltry daily stipend were employed to listen for treason in every tavern, in every huckster's booth, in every alley of every city, were now quite unable to report all the curses which were hourly heard uttered against the tyranny of the Viceroy. Evidently, his power was declining.
It was a piteous sight to see those patient delvers lay down their spades and die, hour after hour, to be succeeded by their brethren only to share their fate. Yet still the harbour building progressed; for the republic was determined that the city should be open to the sea so long as the States had a stiver, or a ship, or a spade.
Already she felt in prison, and by a child would be all the more bound. To some women, the knowledge that a thing must be brings assuagement of the nerves. Gyp was the opposite of those. To force her was the way to stiver up every contrary emotion. She might will herself to acquiesce, but one cannot change one's nature.
"My lord has run away," said Nance. "What?" cried the old man. "Abroad," she continued; "run away from creditors. He said he had not a stiver, but he was drunk enough. He said you might live on in the castle, and Mr. Archer would pay you; but you was to look for no more wages, since he would be glad of them himself."
Against this constantly increasing deficit, there was not a stiver in the exchequer, nor the means of raising one. The tenth penny had been long virtually extinct, and was soon to be formally abolished. Confiscation had ceased to afford a permanent revenue, and the estates obstinately refused to grant a dollar.
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