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Updated: May 12, 2025
This is a rupee, a large and substantial coin you see, about as big as a two-shilling piece, but it is only worth one and fourpence; fifteen of them go to the pound. An anna is a penny, and that little coin like a threepenny bit is a two-anna bit. We have had to hire a native boy to travel with us and look after the luggage, as it is difficult to do without one in India.
What a silly thing you were, Fly, to burst out laughing at breakfast, and then say that Scorpion was in his grave." "But it was so true, David. That hole looked exactly like a grave." "But you have drawn suspicion upon you. Now, Mrs. Cameron certainly doesn't suspect me. See what she has given me: this beautiful new two-shilling piece.
And sleep came on us, soft and kind. The ocean lulled the exiles as on a mother's breast. The stage-scene has dropped. Settle yourselves, my good audience; chat each with his neighbor. Dear madam in the boxes, take up your opera-glass and look about you. Treat Tom and pretty Sal to some of those fine oranges, O thou happy-looking mother in the two-shilling gallery!
Cyril and Jane were more hopeful they generally were. 'I don't think the Sammyadd does it on purpose, Cyril said; 'and, after all, it WAS silly to wish for boundless wealth. Fifty pounds in two-shilling pieces would have been much more sensible. And wishing to be beautiful as the day was simply donkeyish. I don't want to be disagreeable, but it was.
She raced down two blocks and found one. "Grand Central and drive like the devil!" As the door clicked behind her her eye caught the jumping indicator, and she smiled a grim smile. "Faith, in two-shilling jumps like that I'll be bankrupt afore I've my hand on the tails of that coat."
What kind of an opinion can you have of me? But I did so intentionally, I have been burning to find an opportunity to say what I did for a long time. Believe me, if I got a two-shilling bit every time I've been questioned about the boy's parentage either openly or in a roundabout way I should be a well-to-do man by now.
Cyril and Jane were more hopeful they generally were. "I don't think the Sammyadd does it on purpose," Cyril said; "and, after all, it was silly to wish for boundless wealth. Fifty pounds in two-shilling pieces would have been much more sensible. And wishing to be beautiful as the day was simply donkeyish. I don't want to be disagreeable, but it was.
But when they went down to the sand-pit to ask for a hundred pounds in two-shilling pieces with Queen Victoria's head on, to prevent mistakes which they had always felt to be a really reasonable wish that must turn out well they found out that they had done it again! For the Psammead, which was very cross and sleepy, said "Oh, don't bother me. You've had your wish."
Bolton, you also shipped for three dollars per month: and you had one month's advance in Liverpool; and from dock to dock we have been about a month and a half; so I owe you just one dollar and a half, Mr. Bolton; and here it is;" handing him six two-shilling pieces. "And this," said Harry, throwing himself into a tragical attitude, "this is the reward of my long and faithful services!"
The duty on tiles was repealed; also the two-shilling stamp duty on advertisements, together with the vexatious duty on soap. Dramatic copyrights also received protection, and an improvement in the judicial administration was effected. Sinecure offices were abolished in the Court of Chancery, and the laws of dower and inheritance were amended.
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