twenty-two-and-six

Updated: May 25, 2025

Well, accordingly, my Broker goes on 'change Saturday morning, and has his jobber shout out that he'll buy 'Rubber Consols' that's what our shares are called on the street at an eighth premium; that is to say, he offered to buy for twenty-two-and-six what we were offering to the public for twenty shillings.

Harold Frederic - The Market-Place