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Your sister Agathe who is as much your sister as I am sister of the tower of Issoudun, if one's to believe your father, and who has no claim at all upon you is coming here from Paris with her son, a miserable two-penny painter, to see you." "My sister and my nephews coming to Issoudun!" he said, bewildered.
I doubt if I can ever be educated up to that point. I like to be comfortable myself, and to have every one else so. Imagine Mabel getting miffed at me, or I at her, over some little two-penny affair of unadvised expressions!
He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. Thither Marius betook himself. As he passed a baker's shop, he bought a two-penny roll, and ate it, foreseeing that he should not dine. On the way, he rendered justice to Providence.
So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants. I have been more minute in relating the early transactions of this regeneration, because I was in circumstances peculiarly favorable for a knowledge of the truth.
These little incidents, together with the unblushing realism of the Pots of Porter that are made to do duty for wine, and the extra two-penny worth of Lightning that is ordered against the first night, are all in the spirit of that inimitable picture of the Strolling Actresses dressing in a Barn, which Hogarth gave to the world two years later, and which, very possibly, may have borrowed some of its inspiration from Fielding's "dramatic satire."
I shall transcribe two, nearly three hundred years old. "Paid for bread and ale, to make my Lord Abbot drink, in Rogation week, 2d." What should we now think of an ecclesiastical nobleman, accepting a two-penny treat from a country church-warden? This displays an instance of moderation in a class of people famous for luxury.
The temptation to make the first cost low at the expense of the quality of the road in running up the valley of Westfield River was very great, and the directors were at one time very strongly urged to make an exceedingly narrow and crooked road west of Springfield; but Major Whistler so convinced the President, Thomas B. Wales, of the folly of such a course, that the latter declared, with a most emphatic prefix, that he would have nothing to do with such a two-penny cow-path, and thus prevented its adoption.
The burgesses had developed their constitutional positions during the 1750's in response to a series of minor, isolated events royal disallowance, the Pistole Fee Controversy, and the Two-Penny Act. After trying for years to codify and reform laws long in use, the General Assembly in 1748 completed a general revision of the laws.
Surely you know that a trumpery village or a two-penny town is much more choice and exclusive in its 'sets' than a great city? I wouldn't live in a small place for the world. Every inhabitant would know the cut of my clothes by heart, and the number of buttons on my waistcoat. The grocer would copy the pattern of my trousers, the butcher would carry a cane like mine.
But, in common speech, we are apt to confound with it admonition: as when a friend reminds one that drink is prejudicial to the health, etc. We do not care to be told of that which we know better than the good man that admonishes. M sent to his friend L , who is no water-drinker, a two-penny tract 'Against the Use of Fermented Liquors. L acknowledged the obligation, as far as to twopence.
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