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They say it's not worth twopence, and I'm sure they haven't got the funds to carry it on," replied Raphael, rising. "I'll go down about it at once. The Committee have just been here, and I dare say they are still in Schlesinger's office." "No, no," said Goldsmith, pushing him down into his seat. "It will never do if people know I'm the proprietor." "Why not?" "Oh, lots of reasons.
It's a great thing to hold the French army in check within a few marches of Lisbon." "Charley, my man, who cares twopence for the French army or Lisbon or the Portuguese or the Junta or anything about it? every man is pondering over his own affairs. One fellow wants to get home again, and be sent upon some recruiting station.
I am confident that if a census were taken of all the "hired men" of our six states, and a fair average struck, the daily expenditure for drinks would not exceed twopence, or four cents per head, while their average wages would amount to 4s., or 96 cents, per day through the year.
At the end of about half a minute I got up, asked what I had to pay, and on being told twopence, I put down the money. Then going up to the man I put my right forefinger very near to his nose, and said "Dwy o iaith dwy o wyneb, two languages, two faces, friend!" Then after leering at him for a moment I wished the people of the house good-evening and departed.
But people were coming and going constantly, and the doorkeeper was kept opening and closing the door. In the middle of the hall a clerk stood at a desk, having a great book in front of him, and making a show of challenging everybody as he entered. He recognised Aggie as an artiste, but passed Glory also on the payment of twopence and the signing of her name in the book.
For accidents were so frequent that it would have been most perilous to mount the roof. The ordinary fare was about twopence halfpenny a mile in summer, and somewhat more in winter. This mode of travelling, which by Englishmen of the present day would be regarded as insufferably slow, seemed to our ancestors wonderfully and indeed alarmingly rapid.
I'm sure we ought to have one over the gate to say 'Fruit, flowers, vegetables, honey, eggs, fowls, porkers, and dried herbs sold here." The idea pleased the boys immensely. "Can't we sell anything else?" cried Charlie. "Do try and think of something." "Perhaps Aunt Emma will sell cakes and apple-pasties, and provide tea and coffee for twopence a cup."
Twopence a-day is all that a soldier has to lay out upon cleanliness and decency, and with which he is likewise to keep his arms in order, and to supply himself with some part of his clothing.
"Yes," she replied blushing, "as many as Penelope, not one of whom cares twopence about me any more than I care for them. The truth is, Mr. Quatermain, that nobody and nothing interest me, except a spot in the churchyard yonder and another amid ruins in Egypt." "You have had sad bereavements," I said looking the other way. "Very sad and they have left life empty.
After the Collectivist Revolution, instead of saying "twopence worth of soap," we shall say "five minutes' worth of soap." Thus one hour's work of a doctor will have to be considered as equivalent to two or three hours' work of a hospital nurse, or to three or five hours' work of a navvy.
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