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We have every kind of good fruit, great water-melons, which with both arms I can scarcely carry, at twopence halfpenny each, and figs and peaches cheap in proportion. And the place agrees with Baby, and has done good to my husband's spirits, though the only 'amusement' or distraction he has is looking at the mountains and climbing among the woods with me.
The crime was committed in solitude and without accomplices. Alone I did it. Let me, with the characteristic thirst of penitents to get the worst of the confession over, state it first of all in its most dreadful and indefensible form. I last left his open-air restaurant knowing that I owed him twopence. I carried it away under his nose, despite the fact that the nose was a decidedly Jewish one.
"Tea at twopence a pound an' sugar to match not to mention molasses and baccy, you ignorant nigger!" said Benjy; "pass the biscuits." "An' now, massa Alf," said Butterface with an eager look, "we's diskivered dis open sea eh!" "Well, it seems as if we had."
Now when you consider that coffee and bread was twopence and a penny for the maid, you may say without lying that I had left behind me the escarpment of the Alps and stood upon the downward slopes of the first Italian stream and at the summit of the entry road with eight francs ten centimes in my pocket my body hearty and my spirit light, for the arriving sun shot glory into the sky.
I believe I'm the only creature alive who cares twopence for the poor old gentleman." "I know! I know! Mr. Beaumaroy, your position is very difficult. I see that. It really is. But, would you take the money for yourself? Aren't you well, rather in the position of a trustee?" "Who for? The hated cousins? What's the reason in that?" "They may be very good people really.
"Lalage, you haven't respected my scruples and you promised you would. You promised in the most solemn way in a telegram which must have cost you twopence a word." "We have respected them," said Lalage. "You have not. My chief scruple was Hilda's mother." "My point is that you haven't had anything to do with the business.
But the assessment was made in such a way that it not only did not rise in proportion to the rise in the value of land or to the fall in the value of the precious metals, but went on constantly sinking, till at length the rate was in truth less than twopence in the pound.
We were very happy that summer: the boys were quite happy, and the only thing that vexed me was thinking of Perronet's tax-money. For months and months went on and we did not save it. Once we got as far as twopence half-penny, and then one day Richard came to me and said, "I must have some more string for the kite.
And Robert's a man he has eyes in his head and likes to please them. And she knows who he is and draws him on." "I don't think Miss Beecher cares a twopence who Robert is," said Lady Claire honestly. "When I told her he was going to stand for Roxham she answered that she had a very poor opinion of M.P.s from reading Mrs. Ward.
No matter what a man is I wouldn't give twopence for him" here Caleb's mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers "whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn't do well what he undertook to do." "I can never feel that I should do that in being a clergyman," said Fred, meaning to take a step in argument.
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