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'Well, I don't mind that; it's only twopence a piece more, said Mr. Martin. 'What do you say, now? We'll pay you out for three-and-sixpence a week. Come! 'And stand a gallon of beer down, chimed in Mr. Simpson. 'There! 'And drink it on the spot, said the chaplain. 'Now! 'I really am so wholly ignorant of the rules of this place, returned Mr. Pickwick, 'that I do not yet comprehend you.
I could have done it better myself; three-and-sixpence! it’s only fit to be played at football with.’ ‘I will take no less for it, young gentlewoman; it has caused me a world of trouble.’ ‘I never saw a worse mended kettle. I say, brother, your hair is white.’ ‘’Tis nature; your hair is black; nature, nothing but nature.’
He paid only three-and-sixpence a week for the privilege of living there; his food cost him about a shilling a day; on clothing and other unavoidable expenses he laid out some five pounds yearly. Then he bought books volumes which cost anything between twopence and two shillings; further than that he durst not go. A strange time, I assure you.
Foreign housekeepers starting business in London appear hurt when our tradesmen decline to accept half-a-crown for articles marked three- and-six. "Then why mark it only three-and-sixpence?" is the foreign housekeeper's argument. That we Englishmen attach too much importance to sport goes without saying or, rather, it has been said so often as to have become a commonplace.
Well, I'll be generous, I'll say five shillings; I'll take off a crown. Come now, five shillings! This was said with another tremendous slap on his knee. Then, without stopping a moment, he went from five shillings to four-and-sixpence, four shillings, three-and-sixpence. 'Well, I don't mind telling my dearest relation and friend, that I'll let you have it for two-and-six.
The worst part of that drive fell to the share of his wife, who sat holding his head on her lap as they jolted along, trying to keep the jars and bumps from jerking his leg, though all the time she firmly believed he was dead, and was already, in her dulled mind, making pitiful little arrangements about mourning and the funeral, and contemplating, with dreary equanimity, a widowed existence with three-and-sixpence a week for her and Tom and Bill and Zoe to live upon.
"Is there plenty about the women in it?" The trader answered obliquely. "What are we obliged to keep it dark for?" the other put in, "Why of course there is." "Well!" said sunken-eyes affecting carelessness. "What do you want for it? Got sixpence, Bill?" "I sold the last to a gentleman for three-and-sixpence. But as this is the last I've got say half a crown." Sunken-eyes swore at the peddler.
When we had eaten five shillings' worth for three-and-sixpence, and drunk a good bottle of sour red wine apiece, I took him round to "Olympia," and there we saw the famous show they called the "Man in the Moon." This didn't cheer him up at all, and once during the evening he told me that he thought he'd soon be in the moon himself, or any place where they have a job for damaged racing drivers.
I owed three-and-sixpence to Hawker out of my money for a pencil-case, and I had none left, and I took fourpence of yours, and had some coffee at a shop." I suppose I must have been choking whilst uttering this confession. "My dear boy," says the governor, "why didn't you go and breakfast at the hotel?" "He must be starved," says my mother.
This much frightened the poor man, but with great presence of mind, quite astonishing under the circumstances, he retaliated the insult: "Sir, that's a dog; you must pay for it accordingly." A dog it was in the peculiar views of the official, and three-and-sixpence was paid.
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