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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Ten-and-sixpence, please," said the beaming baronet; "I've got Blazer." Mills laughed. "You're not in much of a hurry. Has Blazer won, then?" "Yes; a rank outsider, too. Do you know, I tried all I knew to sell my ticket for threepence. Just fancy if I had." "It's a pity you didn't," said Mills, taking a chair, "The fact is, there's been a bit of a muddle about Blazer.
"Speaking members" were charged ten-and-sixpence per annum, which must have worked out at an extremely moderate rate per word; and "gentlemen whose subscriptions were more than three months in arrear," became, by Rule seven, powerless for good or evil.
Then, issuing forth, full-fed, glowing, oleaginous, I would light my pipe, and wander out into the lighted streets. Criticisms for the Athenæum, then edited by Hepworth Dixon, brought me ten-and-sixpence a column. I used to go to the old office in Wellington Street and have my contributions measured off on the current number with a foot-rule, by good old John Francis, the publisher.
John was wrong there, because nobody ever dreamed such soup as was put upon the table directly afterwards; or such fish; or such side-dishes; or such a top and bottom; or such a course of birds and sweets; or in short anything approaching the reality of that entertainment at ten-and-sixpence a head, exclusive of wines.
"Am I returning to my cubhood, that the mere vision of a woman should take possession of me like this?" And then, having, I suppose, weighed the question, "It's the weather," he decided. "Yes I 'll bet you ten-and-sixpence that it's nothing more than just this silly, sentimental, languorous June weather."
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