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After the first twenty years the property then changing owners the first few repairs in all that long period had been undertaken. That is to say, the outside woodwork was painted; a promise was given to do up the interior; the company's water was laid on; and the rent was raised to three-and-sixpence.
'Half-a-crown! said Rob. 'I will take three-and-sixpence the hundred for them. 'I will not give it to you. But I will give you three shillings the hundred, and a good price, too. 'Very well, then, said Rob.
New profession Beautiful night Jupiter Sharp and shrill The Rommany chi All alone Three-and-sixpence What is Rommany? Be civil Parraco tute Slight start She will be grateful The rustling. I passed the greater part of the day in endeavouring to teach myself the mysteries of my new profession. I cannot say that I was very successful, but the time passed agreeably, and was therefore not ill spent.
Blandford burst out laughing. "I thought at least you'd swallowed a silver spoon!" said he. "Here, waiter, I'll settle that bill. How much is it?" "No," said Reginald, laying down his three shillings; "if you can lend me three-and-sixpence, that's all I want."
I pay only three-and-sixpence a week, and so long as I can earn that, I'm sure at all events of a home, where I can be happy or miserable, as I please." Waymark wondered. There was no mistaking the genuineness of her tone. What, then, had been the reason for this astonishing change, a change extending, it would seem, almost to temperament? What intermediate phases had led up to this result?
"To-night! and you go to Liverpool! Maybe you and father will go together. He's going to Glasgow, by way of Liverpool." "No! I'm walking; and I don't think your father will be up to walking." "Well! and why on earth are you walking? You can get by railway for three-and-sixpence." "Ay, but Mary!
Look'ee, deary; give me three-and- sixpence, and don't you be afeard for me. I'll get back to London then, and trouble no one. I'm in a business. Ah, me! It's slack, it's slack, and times is very bad! but I can make a shift to live by it. 'Do you eat opium? 'Smokes it, she replies with difficulty, still racked by her cough. 'Give me three-and-sixpence, and I'll lay it out well, and get back.
They 'ad their guesses, and then they went in and asked, and as soon as Gerty found that it was only three-and-sixpence she began to feel in her pocket for 'er purse, just like your wife does when you go out with 'er, knowing all the time that it's on the mantelpiece with twopence-ha'penny and a cough lozenge in it. "I must ha' left it at 'ome," she ses, looking at George.
She stops at the gate, and says energetically: 'By this token, though you mayn't believe it, That a young gentleman gave me three-and-sixpence as I was coughing my breath away on this very grass. I asked him for three-and-sixpence, and he gave it me. 'Wasn't it a little cool to name your sum? hints Mr. Datchery, still rattling. 'Isn't it customary to leave the amount open?
When it is recorded in history, who will believe that seven moral, well-meaning men agreed in condemning a poor lad of fifteen to a fine of five shillings, costs three-and-sixpence a sum he could no more pay than I the National Debt, and with the alternative of three months' imprisonment, branding and contaminating for life, and destroying all self-respect?
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