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Hoffman did not answer until he had reflected for a few moments, Then he said, "I'm afraid neither two nor four shillings will cover this item. We must set it down at six." "Which gives for billiards, ale and oysters, the sum of one dollar and a shilling per week. Fifty-two by a dollar twelve-and-a-half, and we have the sum of fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents.
He explained to me that the safety-pins which I had offered Emma Jones for crochet-needles were not crochet-needles; nor the red wafers I had shown Mary Smith for gum-drops, gum-drops that gingham was not three dollars per yard, nor pale-blue silk twelve-and-a-half cents, even to Squire Marigold's daughter. He said I must be more careful.
After the market on Saturday morning, she went out and bought about three dollars worth of eggs, at ten cents a dozen, which, before night, she sold at twelve-and-a-half cents, thus clearing twenty-five cents on the dollar, or three-quarters of a dollar in all. With a dollar and three-quarters that she had made that day, she laid in a supply of common and substantial food.
See here; I have made twenty-eight vests, and at twelve-and-a-half cents each, that is three dollars and a half. "'Well, I believe you are right, said the man, in a changed tone, after looking over the book again. "'Can you pay me to-day? I am much in want of it. "'No, I can't. I have a thousand dollars to pay in bank, and I cannot spare anything before two or three days.
Admission twelve-and-a-half cents." So read the play-bill. I and my fair friend immediately posted to the Town Hall, and there I found Brother Pratt busily engaged in arranging his stage, putting up his scenery, &c. I introduced my travelling companion to the ladies and gentlemen of the profession; and I do not think that any of them suspected her true sex.
But twelve-and-a-half cents a pair for pantaloons, ten cents for vests, and eight cents for shirts, yielded so little, that she was driven to something else. That something else was the washtub; over which, and the ironing-table, she toiled early and late, often ready to sink to the floor from exhaustion. Of this, she said nothing to Mrs.
It was only twelve-and-a-half feet wide and about forty-eight long, and its furnishings were ugly, frayed and meager, but its sitting room opened upon the sun, and there, of a morning, I continued to write in growing content.
They laughed at me, and said that Belle Marigold had consented to go with me; that I knew her she had been in the store and bought some blue silk for twelve-and-a-half cents a yard; and they rather thought she fancied me, she seemed so ready to accept my escort; should they tell her I would call for her at ten o'clock, sharp, on Saturday morning?
When did you come?" "I arrived this morning. It was hot travelling, and I shared my compartment in the wagon-lit with a German gentleman very far advanced in several unaesthetic ailments. Basta! Thank Heaven for this. Calm and delicious!" His large, piercing eyes were fixed upon Vere. "And about twelve," he added, "or twelve-and-a-half." "Yes, you.
It did not take her long to learn, and soon after she had acquired the art, as her husband's health still continued to decline, she began, in odd times, to make common pantaloons and vests, for which she received the meagre compensation of twelve-and-a-half cents each. It took her about one-half of her time, actively engaged, to attend to her family.
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