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Updated: May 14, 2025
Sir Charles admired the red roses, which Anne declared she had bought for two-and-threepence. 'Very ingenious, said Sir Charles. 'I am ingenious and clever, said Anne. 'I get my cleverness from my father, and my economy from my mother. My father's a clergyman, but his wife was a little country girl a sort of Merry Peasant; like Schumann's piece, you know. Peasants are always merry.
Cheese was tenpence; potatoes from five to ten shillings a bushel. 'A reasonable loaf of good soft Bread' cost sixpence. Soap was a shilling a pound. Tea was prohibitive for all but the officers. 'Plain Green Tea and very Badd' was fifteen shillings, 'Couchon' twenty shillings, 'Hyson' thirty. Leaf tobacco was tenpence a pound, roll one-and-tenpence, snuff two-and-threepence.
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