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Updated: June 12, 2025
What could Chillingly Mivers have been in an age when people cared twopence-halfpenny about their religious creeds, and their political parties deemed their cause was sacred and their leaders were heroes? Chillingly Mivers would not have found five subscribers to "The Londoner."
It may have been my birthday. 'Twopence-halfpenny, says the landlord, 'is the price of the Genuine Stunning ale. 'Then, says I, producing the money, 'just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head to it.
"Dos reales" was the price of that piece of lavish entertainment, the old twopence-halfpenny still holding sway in out-districts against the more modern decimal notation. A peseta is worth rather less than a franc at the usual rate of exchange. And then a guide was wanted. Every able-bodied man amongst the villagers offered his services for nothing.
Still, let us hope he will come safely out of St. Petersburg. And now, Dot, for breakfast, because I must get to work." Next morning Dorothy saw a letter for herself on the table in the now familiar hand-writing, and was more relieved than perhaps she would have confessed even to her closest friend, when she saw the twopence-halfpenny English stamp on the envelope.
I hear you can get a room in Paris for twopence-halfpenny a night, and I can manage that." "How long will it take you to get there?" enquired the old woman, immensely impressed by Bouzille's venturesome plan. "That depends," said the tramp. "I must allow quite three months with my train.
The reis or master of the ferry-boat to which the clerical guide applied was a mighty man, some six feet high, graced with a turban, as Arabs are; erect in his bearing, with bold eye, and fine, free, supple limbs a noble reis for that Nile ferry-boat. But, noble as he was, he wanted too many piastres twopence-halfpenny a head too much for each donkey, with its rider.
"Twopence-halfpenny for your thoughts, Fokey!" cried out Miss Rougemont, taking her cigar from her truly vermilion lips, as she beheld the young fellow lost in thought, seated at the head of his table, amidst melting ices, and cut pine-apples, and bottles full and empty, and cigar-ashes scattered on fruit, and the ruins of a dessert which had no pleasure for him.
I've got some money on that they're never married, but I don't see my way to handling it." "Much?" "Well, no; about twopence-halfpenny a fancy bet." "I'm glad it's nothing, because I want you to help me, and you couldn't have if you had anything on; besides, you shouldn't bet on such things." "Oh, I'm not going to meddle with the thing.
He had somehow about him an air of imperious good-humour, and a royal frankness and majesty, although he was only heir-apparent to twopence-halfpenny, and but one in descent from a gallypot. If these positions are made for us, we acquiesce in them very easily; and are always pretty ready to assume a superiority over those who are as good as ourselves.
The Prince of Trente et Quarante has quite overcome the old serene sovereign of Noirbourg, whom one cannot help fancying a prince like a prince in a Christmas pantomime a burlesque prince with twopence-halfpenny for a revenue, jolly and irascible, a prime-minister-kicking prince, fed upon fabulous plum-puddings and enormous pasteboard joints, by cooks and valets with large heads which never alter their grin.
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