twinty-five

Updated: June 20, 2025

The smith mentally docked this sum by seventy pounds, but said, "By dam!" in polite convention. "'Twasn't a week afther that I got her for twinty-five pounds!" The smith made a further mental deduction equally justified by the facts; the long snore and wheeze of the bellows filled the silence, and the dirty walls flushed and glowed with the steady crescendo and diminuendo of the glow.

Martin Ross - All on the Irish Shore: Irish Sketches