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There were seven of them in an envelope; and I knew at once that she had got them for a shilling. She had heard me saying that eightpence is a sad price to pay for a cigar I prefer them at tenpence and a few days afterward she produced her first Celebros.
Anxious curiosity forced her to inquire. "Would I do instead?" she asked. "Well, hardly," said Gibson, clawing his chin, and gazing at a corded round of "Barbie's Best" just above his head. "Dod, it's a fine ham that," he said, to turn the subject. "How are ye selling it the now?" "Tenpence a pound retail, but ninepence only if ye take a whole one. Ye had better let me send you one, Mr.
I have heard it said that out of every shilling of the ratepayer's contributions the poor people only get twopence or its equivalent, the officials and administration expenses absorbing the remaining tenpence. My first gardener had been employed at the Manor, when I came, for very many years, and at the end of ten more he was obliged to resign through old age.
Perhaps the electric light in your bedroom fails, and for three days you have to sit in the dark or purchase candles. An invisible but observant little cherub notes this fact; and long afterwards a postal order for tenpence flutters down upon you from Olympus, marked "light allowance." Once Bobby Little received a mysterious postal order for one-and-fivepence.
The business was opened by the announcement of what they all knew before, that the proceeds of the fancy fair amounted to one hundred and forty-nine pounds fifteen shillings and tenpence. Then came a pause, and Mrs. Ledwich said that next they had to consider what was the best means of disposing of the sum gained in this most gratifying manner. Every one except Flora, Ethel, and quiet Mrs.
If this thing happens, if a small fortune is won or lost merely to gratify Dunston's whim, I assure you that I shall never touch a card again as long as I live." Then Spencer laughed. "That would be too bad, Mr. Hare," he cried. "Make your mind easy. The game is off. Count on me for the tenpence a hundred limit after dinner to-morrow." "Now, that is quite good and kind of you.
No, you patch your shoe, and you take your tenpence; and at dusk up you jump from your bench, get a bath if you are in the humour for it, buy yourself a haddock or some sprats or a few heads of garlic, and make merry therewith; Poverty, best of philosophers, is your companion, and you are seldom at a loss for a song. And what is the result?
"I have a bright new penny," cried little Patty Green, who was scarcely six years old. "I didn't like to spend it, because it was so pretty, but I will send it to the little heathen children to buy Bibles with!" "And I," added James Blair, "have a tenpence that Mr.
Those men will work ten hours a-day for him at tenpence, yet they won't till their own lands; and when they do any thing, they never commence to work before nine o'clock in the morning."
There was exactly twenty-eight shillings and tenpence in her purse. She stated her case she had missed milady her mistress she must stay until she should receive orders to go on, and money would they take her in until one or the other arrived? Certainly. They would take her in, at five francs a day, payable every morning in advance.
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