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Updated: June 20, 2025
Those who can scarcely fee a baker when they are in health can certainly not remunerate a physician when they are ill. But, despite her sickness, Mrs. Makebelieve was worried with the practical common politics of existence. The food purchased with her last sevenpence was eaten beyond remembrance.
The seaman shook his head, and after sitting for some time in silence, went ashore with the cook and drank himself into a state of hopeless pessimism. In this condition he forgave everybody, and feeling very low, made his will by the simple process of giving his knife to Dick and two and sevenpence to Henry.
"Now we have information, miss, to the effect that three registered letters, containing in all the sum of £63 " "Fourteen and sevenpence," murmured Mr. White. "Sixty-three pounds odd," said the detective, "which were abstracted by you yesterday are concealed in this flat." "In the left-hand bottom drawer of your bureau," murmured Mr. White.
"Well, sir, I won't say anything about the hextry gas, though a poor widder and sevenpence hextry on the thousand, but I'm thinkin' if you would give my Rosie a lesson once a week on that there pianner, it would be a kind of set-off, for you know, sir, the policeman tells me your winder is a landmark to 'im on the foggiest nights." Lancelot flushed, then wrinkled his brows.
But how came you to talk of four and sevenpence. I saw in the manger a hat full of silver." "Indeed!" exclaimed Lawrence. "Yes, indeed; but why did you stammer so when we first got in? You had liked to have blown us all up." "I was so ashamed," said Lawrence, hanging down his head.
Amongst Europeans the currency employed is the silver dollar, now worth about one shilling and sevenpence though formerly rated at five shillings, together with a subsidiary coinage of fifty, twenty, ten and five-cent silver pieces, as well as coppers of one and two cents each. The Chinese standard of value in universal use throughout the Empire is copper cash.
"Shows what I can do when I try," answered the artist. "However, the tea is shockingly bad." "What can you expect for one and sevenpence halfpenny per pound?" cried Will. "How do you know what she pays?" Warburton's answer was another peal of merriment. "Well, I shouldn't wonder," Franks went on. "The fact is, you know, they're very poor.
Here the factory act applies, and inspectors appear periodically; but this does not hinder the carrying out of individual theories as to what constitutes a day. If five minutes late, sevenpence is deducted from the week's wages, which begin at three and sixpence and ascend to nine, the latter price being the utmost to be earned in this branch of the trade.
Shooting-gallery a penny, that's a shilling. Giddy-go-round, a penny, that's one and a penny. Treating Tony, one and twopence. Shooting-gallery again, one and fourpence; Fat Woman a penny, one and fivepence. Giddy-go-round again, one and sixpence. Shooting-gallery, one and sevenpence. Treating Tony, and then he wouldn't shoot, so I did, one and eightpence.
She also advised Beth to buy a little oil-stove, the only one she knew of that really didn't smell if you attended to it yourself; and a tin to hold oil for it crystal oil at sevenpence a gallon, the best. "You can do all you want with that, and keep yourself warm enough too when the weather's bad," she said; "and there's no waste, for you can turn it out when you've done with it.
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