two-and-eleven-penny

Updated: May 8, 2025

When she had turned her face and her tired feet away from discouraging errands and small humiliations and discomforts, she had turned them toward the bed-sitting-room, the hot little fire, the small, fat black kettle singing on the hob, and the two-and-eleven-penny tea-set.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Emily Fox-Seton : Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst"