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"Now I have got rid of her," said Teuzer, to his men, "we shall see no more of her here." But to his surprise, she returned in two days bringing the two-pence. "It is well," said he to her, "it is well to be so honest, had you not returned, I knew neither where you lived, nor your name. Who are your parents?"
As Monty used to get two-pence or three-pence a day extra when he was in the British army, for knowing something of that tongue, we stood at once on common ground. "Kagig told us to wait here and bring you to him," said Gregor Jhaere. "Where is Kagig?" Monty asked, and the man smiled blankly much more effectively than if he had shrugged his shoulders.
The terms are lax, and the expences light. Mr. Barry was adopted by Dr. Brocklesby, who joined with me in forming the plan. We meet thrice a week, and he who misses forfeits two-pence. 'If you are willing to become a member, draw a line under your name. Return the list. We meet for the first time on Monday at eight. I am, &c. 'Dec. 4, 1783. It did not suit Sir Joshua to be one of this Club.
The terms are lax, and the expences light. Mr. Barry was adopted by Dr. Brocklesby, who joined with me in forming the plan. We meet thrice a week, and he who misses forfeits two-pence . 'If you are willing to become a member, draw a line under your name. Return the list. We meet for the first time on Monday at eight. 'I am, &c. 'Dec. 4, 1783. It did not suit Sir Joshua to be one of this Club.
I could hardly help wishing that he had been compelled to take one-half of my Manchester and Birmingham gains. I never charged more than two-pence, I seldom charged more than a penny, for admission to my lectures: but such were the crowds that attended, and such was the readiness of my friends in different places to help me without charge, that in nine cases out of ten I had a surplus.
For two-pence I would ask him to go and look for quarters somewhere else; only one doesn't like to treat a white man like that out in the tropics. I don't know how long he means to stay, but I'm willing to bet a trifle that he'll never work himself up to the point of spending the fifty cents of entrance money for the sake of a little good music."
We resumed the journey with more diligence: thenceforward posted day and night; did not halt beyond what was necessary for meals; and the postillions were excited by gratuities, after the habit of my cousin Alain. For two-pence I could have gone farther and taken four horses; so extreme was my haste, running as I was before the terrors of an awakened conscience. But I feared to be conspicuous.
"Very true; but we can ice our negus and cherry-water. Rough ice is only two-pence a pound, I believe." "Well, that will be an improvement." "And there shall be more, or I'll be in the Bench," replied the Doctor in his wrath. The next conversazione, for which cards were issued by Doctor Feasible, was on a superior scale. There was a considerable increase of company. Every thing went off well.
Here poor Mrs Tipps pointed indignantly to her account-book, and to a pile of papers that lay before her, as if they were the guilty cause of all her troubles. "How does it stand? The whole two hundred and fifty pounds seventeen shillings spent only the two-pence left and accounts to tradesmen, amounting to fifty pounds, remaining unpaid!"
The rent of Rum is not great. Mr. Maclean declared, that he should be very rich, if he could set his land at two-pence halfpenny an acre. The inhabitants are fifty-eight families, who continued Papists for some time after the Laird became a Protestant.
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