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When the blouse was finished, Hugh took it to a man at whose shop trade the poorest sort of middle-class women, saying: "I can let you have a line like this at thirty-five and six a dozen." "I'll try three twelves," said the man. Then Hugh went into the City and fetched up Japanese silk, and lace, and large white buttons; and Millie sewed with her might.
She should be bark-rigged, and in other respects of a different construction from the usual South Sea ships. It is absolutely necessary that she should be well armed. She should have, say ten or twelve twelve-pound carronades, and two or three long twelves, with brass blunderbusses, and water-tight arm-chests for each top.
Mrs Foster then went on to add a variety of other figures to this, with an occasional word of assistance from Amy, until the whole amounted to the sum of one hundred and thirty-three. "There," said Mrs Foster, with a pleased expression, as she put the figures down, "now how many twelves are in that eh? let me see.
A month is called a year with you, and that would make you, let me see how much is twelve times thirty-one? Oh, hang it, nearly five hundred, I should think. Why am I such a duffer at mental arithmetic! It is just the contrary how many twelves in thirty-one? About two and a half in round numbers, and that's absurd, as you are not a baby.
On her proper gun-deck, above these, she had fourteen guns on each side, twelves and nines. Then she had a high quarter, and a high forecastle, with eight more guns on these, having, you know, one of those queer old poops you see in old pictures. She was, therefore, a good deal higher than we; for our quarter-deck had followed the fashion and come down.
A mighty muffled blast sent the Bon homme Richard rolling to larboard, and the smoke eddied from our hatches and lifted out of the space between the ships. The Englishman had blown off his gun-ports. And next some one shouted that our battery of twelves was fighting them muzzle to muzzle below, our rammers leaning into the Serapis to send their shot home.
To have a really correct apprehension of the principle of decimal notation, for instance, to understand that it is purely arbitrary, and that we might in the same way take any other number than ten as the base of a numerical scale, that we might increase for instance by fives, or eights, or nines, or twelves, just as well as by tens all this requires considerable maturity of intellect, and some subtlety of reasoning.
Yet all the letters, together with numerous digressions and inserted narratives, serve only to fill out three volumes in twelves. To readers whose taste for fiction has been cloyed by novels full of incident, movement, and compression, nothing could be more maddening than the leisurely footpace at which the story drags its slow length along.
Every resonant quarter was anticipated up to the blow, without averting its murderous abruptness; and an executioner Midnight that sounded, in addition to the reiterated quarters, four and twenty ringing hammerstrokes, with the aching pause between the twelves, left them the prey of the legions of torturers which are summed, though not described, in the title of a sleepless night.
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