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From that time poor Mother Bunch only heard of her sister at rare intervals. She still mourned for her, and continued to toil hard to gain her three-and-six a week. The unfortunate girl, having been taught sewing by Frances, made coarse shirts for the common people and the army. For these she received half-a-crown a dozen.
"Sometimes a shilling, sometimes one and six, or two shillings, accordin' as the people were poor or better off." "How were wages going?" "Wages were not so high as they had been in the good times before the famine. A man sometimes got three-and-six or four shillings then; now he got two shillings." "And board himself?" "Oh, yes, always board himself."
Edward P , to whom I hereby present my best compliments, had a parting interview with me: gave me my little account for my governor: the remaining part of the coach-hire; five shillings for my own expenses; and some five-and-twenty shillings on an old account which had been overpaid, and was to be restored to my family. Away I ran and paid Hawker his three-and-six.
You don't insult your guests by sending to the grocer for champagne at six shillings a bottle." I could not help thinking of "Jackson Freres" at three-and-six! "In fact," said Mr. Huttle, "a man is little less than a murderer who does. That is the province of the milksop, who wastes his evening at home playing dominoes with his wife. I've heard of these people. We don't want them at this table.
From that time poor Mother Bunch only heard of her sister at rare intervals. She still mourned for her, and continued to toil hard to gain her three-and-six a week. The unfortunate girl, having been taught sewing by Frances, made coarse shirts for the common people and the army. For these she received half-a-crown a dozen.
"Three-and-six a week in advance," said Mrs Nash; "no tick." Jack pulled rather a long face. "It'll be a tight fit," said he to me, "out of eight shillings a week." "Oh, I can pay part," said I, too delighted at the prospect of Jack's company to admit of any obstacle. "My uncle pays my lodging, you know, so I have the eight shillings all to myself." Jack, however, scouted the idea.
Because all the different medicines say, "Thousands of cures daily," and if you only take that as two thousand, which it must be, at least, it mounts up. And the people who sell them must make a great deal of money by them because they are nearly always two-and-ninepence the bottle, and three-and-six for one nearly double the size. Now the bottles, as I was saying, don't cost anything like that.
"I don't think, you know," said I, feeling rather extinguished by Doubleday's pitying tone, "it's such a very cheap place. It's three- and-six a week." Doubleday gazed at me in astonishment, and then broke out into a loud laugh. "Three-and-six a week! Why, my dear fellow, you could do it cheaper in a workhouse.
"Come, I'll give you three-and-six for it." "It's more than it's wurf," replied the candid youth. "Perhaps," said Horace, "but I'm rather pressed for time. If you'll change this sovereign, I'll take the bottle away with me." "You seem uncommon anxious to get 'old on it, mister!" said the boy, with sudden suspicion. "Nonsense!" said Horace.
Oh, good gracious! your uncle must be in precious low water to stick you up in a hole like that at three-and-six a week. Do you know what my lodgings cost, eh, young 'un?" "No," said I, very crestfallen; "how much?" "Fifteen bob, upon my honour, and none too grand. Three-and-six a week, why I say, Crow!" "Oh, don't go telling everybody!" cried I, feeling quite ashamed of myself. "Oh, all serene.
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