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I have never seen her." "But she left here quite early on purpose. She said she was going straight to your house. I sent you plenty of money, did I not?" "How much did you say?" asked Kitty, putting her hand up to her forehead in a distracted way. "Ten pounds seven and twopence. You only really wanted eight pounds, did you not?"
Mr. LOMBAARD also was against the reduction. Mr. DE LA REY said speculators could afford to pay the present rates of postage, and as the reduction would only benefit the townspeople, let matters remain unaltered. If he resided in a town and speculated he would be able to pay twopence. Mr.
He had just assured Shargar that as soon as his grandmother was asleep he would look about for what he could find, and carry it up to him in the garret. As yet he had confined the expenditure out of Shargar's shilling to twopence. The household always retired early earlier on Saturday night in preparation for the Sabbath and by ten o'clock grannie and Betty were in bed.
I never bought it in any quantity, but I know that the price in the Southern States averaged from twopence to threepence a pound, the price in Liverpool at that time being about half-a-crown. We were anxious to try the luck of our run-out before the moon got powerful, so the cargo was shipped as quickly as possible.
Into the question of the prices of labor and of food, which Mr. Froude considers so fully in the first chapter of his history, I shall not enter any further than to remark that the hardness of the laborer's lot, who got, mayhap, only twopence a day, is mitigated by the fact that for a penny he could buy a pound of meat which now costs a shilling.
When they understood he was willing to pay something, the value of The Flag of Judah went up from less than twopence to more than two hundred pounds. Everybody was talking about it, its reputation was made, they were going to print double next week. "But it has not cost you forty pounds yet?" said the astonished Raphael. "What are you saying? Look at the posters alone!" said Sugarman.
It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. "This is my friend, Doctor Watson, before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel."
I do not mind about the man's abuse; but I confess I grudge my twopence. I have observed, too, that the people who send letters unpaid do so habitually. I have known the same individual send six successive letters unpaid. Let me advise every reader to do what I intend doing for the future: to wit, to refuse to receive any unpaid letter.
Half a day's investigations and comparison brought him to the conclusion that sausages and mashed potatoes, twopence a plate, were the best food. Now, sausages once or twice a week for breakfast are not unpleasant. As lunch, even, with mashed potatoes, they become monotonous. At dinner they are impertinent.
The poor bird was tied by the leg, and its tormentors stood twenty-two yards distant and had three throws each for twopence, winning the bird if they could knock it down. The cock was trained beforehand to avoid the sticks, so as to win more money for its brutal master.
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