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I went on ruthlessly: "Talking of which, did you notice the detectives?" "No," she said. "What about them?" "Wall eyed, my dear, all of them. Cost me two-and-six extra, but I thought it was worth it. Worries the thieves awfully, you know. They can't tell whether they're watching the fish-slice or the 'Longfellow'. And all the time they're really counting the marron glaces.
To my horror, at that very moment, Sarah entered the room, and putting a bottle of whisky, wrapped in a dirty piece of newspaper, on the table in front of us, said: "Please, sir, the grocer says he ain't got no more Kinahan, but you'll find this very good at two-and-six, with twopence returned on the bottle; and, please, did you want any more sherry? as he has some at one-and-three, as dry as a nut!"
William cut the wires of the champagne, and at that moment Charles, who had gone through with the ladder to turn out the street lamp, returned with a light overcoat on his arm which he said a cove outside wanted to sell him for two-and-six. "Do you know him?" said William. "Yes, I knowed him. I had to put him out the other night Bill Evans, the cove that wears the blue Melton."
That's what you want, more gluten; no corpses, no dead bodies. Why, I've known young fellows, vegetarians, who have lived like fighting cocks on sevenpence a day. Seven times seven are forty-nine. How much do you pay for your room?" I told him. "Four-and-a-penny and two-and-six makes six-and-seven. That leaves you five and fivepence for mere foolery. Good God! what more do you want?"
'I suppose this can be managed somehow, said the butcher, after a pretty long silence. 'What will you take to go out? 'I beg your pardon, replied Mr. Pickwick. 'What did you say? I hardly understand you. 'What will you take to be paid out? said the butcher. 'The regular chummage is two-and-six. Will you take three bob? 'And a bender, suggested the clerical gentleman.
As the conversation began to flag, it was proposed that each should write a verse, and place it, together with two-and-six pence, under the candlestick, the best poet to take the half-crowns, while the unsuccessful rhymers were to settle the bill among them. According to Cunningham, Burns obtained the stakes by writing: "Here am I, Johnny Peep; I saw three sheep, And these three sheep saw me.
Ouf! what a weight it was off my mind! I and another boy shared a hackney-coach; two-and-six: porter for putting luggage on coach, threepence. I had no more money of my own left. Rasherwell, my companion, went into the "Bolt-in-Tun" coffee-room, and had a good breakfast. I couldn't; because, though I had five-and-twenty shillings of my parents' money, I had none of my own, you see.
"Are you sure of the address, youngster?" asked one of the imperturbable firemen, settling his chinstrap more comfortably. "Are you sure o' your own grandmother?" said Pax. "You're cheeky," replied the man, with a smile. "You make haste," retorted Pax; "three minutes allowed to get under weigh. Two and a half gone already. Two-and-six fine if late, besides a "
The window contained photographs of more or less undressed dancing girls; nondescript packages in wrappers like patent medicines; closed yellow paper envelopes, very flimsy, and marked two-and-six in heavy black figures; a few numbers of ancient French comic publications hung across a string as if to dry; a dingy blue china bowl, a casket of black wood, bottles of marking ink, and rubber stamps; a few books, with titles hinting at impropriety; a few apparently old copies of obscure newspapers, badly printed, with titles like The Torch, The Gong—rousing titles.
He could not hold it much longer, and since the Askews were bringing down large quantities of peat, there was no ground for imagining the dalesfolk would give way. It looked as if he must meet them and he wrote a notice that coal would be delivered by the trailer lurry at a reduction of two-and-six a ton. When he had put this in an envelope for the printers, Bell knitted his brows.
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