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"My honest friend," he said, "I shall make it a point to patronize your house on some occasion, when" here he could not help lowering his voice "when I may have more than a parchment three-pence in my pocket. My present business," continued he, speaking with lofty confidence, "is merely to inquire my way to the dwelling of my kinsman, Major Molineux."
Sulkily he shoulders it, and precedes us to the booking-office. The fares are moderate; eighteen-pence to Greenock, first class: and we understand that persona who go daily, by taking season tickets, travel for much less. The steamers afford a still cheaper access to the sea-side, conveying passengers from Glasgow to Rothesay, about forty-five miles, for sixpence cabin and three-pence deck.
He had been my partner, playing the inferior game, for the mutual benefit. "But the time may come, Timothy, when we may find ourselves without money, as we were when we first commenced our career, and shared three-pence halfpenny each, by selling the old woman the embrocation." "Well, sir, and let it come.
'I've been down in Kilpeddar buying a scythe-stone, he began, when I came up to him, 'and indeed Kilpeddar is a dear place, for it's three-pence they charged me for it; but I suppose there must be a profit from every trade, and we must all live and let live. When we had talked a little more I asked him if he had been often in Dublin.
I dressed myself in my more humble garments, securing my money in the pocket of my trousers unobserved by the Jew, made up a bundle of the rest, and procured a stick from the Jew to carry it on, however not without paying him three-pence for it, he observing that the stick "wash not in de bargain."
We did not, however, go together, for the reason that I had made up my mind to go by a direct route over the Berea, whilst he had some special reason for taking a more round-about course. I passed a number of coolie huts, each standing in a little pineapple patch. I spent ninepence of my capital in the purchase of a dozen pines, getting three separate lots of four at three-pence per lot.
'You've plenty of pennies now, she said soothingly. 'I shall never have enough, he began, with vicious emphasis. Then, laughing, 'I shall always be three-pence short in my accounts. 'Why threepence? 'I carried a man's bag once from Liverpool Street Station to Blackfriar's Bridge. It was a sixpenny job, you needn't laugh; indeed it was, and I wanted the money desperately.
It cost what was it, it cost?" "Oh! I know what it cost," replied Amber. "I gave you three-pence to pay for it. Where is it?" "If I recollect, it cost seven shillings and six-pence," replied Nicholas, pulling out, not a skein of blue silk, but a yard of blue sarsenet. "Now, papa, do look here! Uncle Nicholas, I never will give you a commission again. Is it not provoking?
The old gentleman, at every bit he put into his mouth, amused himself with saying, 'There goes two-pence, there goes three-pence, there goes a groat. Zounds, a man at these places should not have a swallow as wide as a torn-tit." But having been launched on a career of temporary extravagance, the honest citizen grew reckless.
"But how shall we account for receiving the two-pence?" said Timothy. "Selling two vials instead of one: they are never reckoned, you know." "That will do capitally," cried Timothy; "and now for halves." But this could not be managed until Timothy had run out and changed the sixpence; we then each had our three-pence halfpenny, and for once in our lives could say that we had money in our pockets.
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