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"I nearly forget," Judy said; closing her eyes again. "I kept asking for food at little cottages, and sometimes they asked me to sleep, and I had three-and-six that went a long way. I only slept outside two nights, and I had my jacket then." Meg's face was pale with horror at her sister's adventure.
His interrogation must await the answer to that awful question life or death. The woman came in presently, bustling and out of breath. She had found a very trustworthy person, recommended by Mr. Mew's assistant a person who would come that evening without fail. "It was all the way up at Islington, sir, and I paid the cabman three-and-six altogether, which he said it were his fare.
'I suppose it's very dear, said Mrs Jarley. 'Five shillings, returned Mr Slum, using his pencil as a toothpick. 'Cheaper than any prose. 'I couldn't give more than three, said Mrs Jarley. And six, retorted Slum. 'Come. Three-and-six. Mrs Jarley was not proof against the poet's insinuating manner, and Mr Slum entered the order in a small note-book as a three-and-sixpenny one.
"Then feel a fool for my sake, once, won't you?" The request made his blood flush up. "I suppose I s'll have to." "What are you taking a suitcase for?" his mother asked. He blushed furiously. "Clara asked me," he said. "And what seats are you going in?" "Circle three-and-six each!" "Well, I'm sure!" exclaimed his mother sarcastically. "It's only once in the bluest of blue moons," he said.
Gamp' she says, in answer, 'if ever there was a sober creetur to be got at eighteen-pence a day for working people, and three-and-six for gentlefolks, night-watching being a extra charge, you are that inwallable person. Never did I think, till I know'd you, as any woman could sick-nurse and monthly likeways, on the little that you takes to drink. 'Mrs.
"Eh oh, all right, I won't tell any one; but think of you and Bull's- eye sitting in a three-and-six parlour without carpets or wall-papers reading Tim Goodyboy's Sunday Picture-book, and all that." I smiled faintly, vexed though I was. "They've novels there," I said, grandly. "No! and all for three-and-six too! No wonder you're snug. Well, no accounting for tastes.
I am glad to get back to it I am glad to see the three-and-six signs with the little slanting dash between the shillings and pennies. Yes, even the steam-rollers and the man with the red flag in front are welcome." "I suppose," said Mrs. Downs, "it's because one has been so long on the ocean that the ride to London seems so interesting. It always pays me for the entire trip.
'What would you have? I only got three-and-six for it. 'You! Is that thing yours? 'Yes, sir; that thing is mine. And the Castle people think somewhat more gravely about it than you do. 'At which you are pleased, doubtless? 'Not pleased, but proud, Master Dick, let me tell you.
Then he went on to tell us that when we had invented our medicine we would write and tell the editor about it, and he would put it in the paper, and then people would send their two-and-ninepence and three-and-six for the bottle nearly double the size, and then when the medicine had cured them they would write to the paper and their letters would be printed, saying how they had been suffering for years, and never thought to get about again, but thanks to the blessing of our ointment
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