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Updated: May 12, 2025
We're about straight with the world, though it means every penny earmarked before I earn it. And there's no question of buying a pram now, thank God!" He turned away and searched on the mantelpiece for matches. "It made me shudder," he said very gravely, "three-pound-ten! Four pounds! After all the expenses I'd had." "Well...." she said, swallowing hard, "well, come and see Mr. Rokeby's present.
Take you the sum and sign you the paper bach." Having acted accordingly, Dai cast his gaze on the shelves and on the floor, and he walked about judging aloud the value of what he saw: "Tea, three-pound-ten; biscuits, four-six; flour, four-five; firewood, five shillings; matches, one-ten; soap, one pound. Bring you these to Petersham. Put you them with the bed and the dishes I kindly lent you."
But, strange to say, the auditory, insensible to the delight with which the public would view the splendid architectural improvements with taste too grovelling to appreciate the glories of plate-glass shop-fronts and brass scroll work too selfish to rejoice, for its own sake, in the beauty of arabesques and chandeliers, which, though they never might behold, the astonished public would with souls too niggardly to leap for joy at the thought that gents would henceforth buy the registered guanaco vest, and the patent elastic omni-seasonum paletot half-a-crown cheaper than ever or that needy noblemen would pay three-pound-ten instead of five pounds for their footmen's liveries received the news, clod-hearted as they were, in sullen silence, and actually, when they got into the street, broke out into murmurs, perhaps into execrations.
"They're as common as blackberries: you can pick 'em up for three-pound-ten a head." "I wouldn't do it under fifty if I were a sawbones," ejaculated John. "And then Michael," continued Morris, "is in the very thick of it. All his clients have come to grief; his whole business is rotten eggs.
'They're as common as blackberries: you can pick 'em up for three-pound-ten a head. 'I wouldn't do it under fifty if I were a sawbones, ejaculated John. 'And then Michael, continued Morris, 'is in the very thick of it. All his clients have come to grief; his whole business is rotten eggs.
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