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"Ay! that they are, my lad; they'll want a shilling to row you aboard, or perhaps as you're a orficer, like, they'll want two shillings." Bob's heart sank. "But thruppence is plenty, speshly as you ain't got no kit." Bob's spirits rose again, and the man began to whistle a very doleful tune, but left off in a minute or two. "Like holidays?" he said suddenly. "Yes, very much."
If I was you, now, I'd go and see the Tahr of London where they used to be'ead people. An' the Monument, too! You can go up that for thruppence. An' the view you get! Miles an' miles an' miles! Well, you can see the Crystal Palace anywy! I do like a view! Or if you down't like the Tahr of London, you could go to the Zoo. Ow, the monkeys! Ow, dear! They're so yooman, I felt quite uncomfortable.
It is not a lack of manhood I'm sure of that; and it's not lack of caring, for he can care a lot about some things. But what is it? I would give a great deal to know." "If the tales about old King Midas have a thruppence worth of truth in them, it might be his father's meanness that's ailing him." Marjorie Schuyler shook her head. "No; Billy's almost a prodigal.
"We won't 'ave no drinkin'," said the cook. "We'll do wot the feller did in that story. 'Ave you got sixpence about you?" "Wot for?" inquired Sam carefully. "Workin' expenses," replied the cook, dwelling fondly on the phrase. "That'll be thruppence each, then," said Sam, eyeing him suspiciously. "Sixpence each," said the cook. "Now do you know what we're goin' to do?"
Clancy poured out the tea with a shaking hand, and Judy, spilling some into her saucer, proceeded to blow it vigorously, her hosts with difficulty restraining their impatience the while. "Beautiful tay, ma'am!" she remarked, after gulping down the first instalment. "Elegant tay now, isn't it? Herself never gives less nor two an' thruppence a pound for it."
"Oh, that's all right, Jack," answered the sea-lawyer. "He's a perfect right to. Ain't he just as liable to lose his wages as the rest of us?" "Wouldn't give thruppence for them!" Jack sniffed back. He had been planning to go home and see his family in Chelsea when he was paid off, and he was now feeling rather blue over the highly possible loss, not only of his pay, but of his liberty.
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