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"Three pounds, fifteen shillings, and sevenpence is not a great sum," said I, "but perhaps it will enable you to reach your family." "I'm afraid not; you see I have no family." "Your friends, then." "I have no friends; I am alone in the world."
Meuse, and who, when the peace came, preferred taking unto himself a daughter of the Amalekite and settling in St. Meuse, to going home to a pension of sevenpence a day and liberty to ply as an Edinburgh caddie. As for the German "men in possession," they pursued the even tenor of their way in the precise yet phlegmatic German manner.
The triumphant ring of his voice is still in my ears as he announced that he had found a merchant who could provide him with just the wine he wanted, good, pure, light, white or red, an ordinary brand for sevenpence a bottle, a superior brand for eightpence.
Tho. You cannot know these from bookes as they are painted, I warrant you. Un. Why, dost thou thinke theis will make a Souldier? Tho. Not of themselves, Sir, and therefore I provided: please you read on, Sir. Un. Parsons Resolutions and Felthams Resolves . Tho. All is nothing I knew, Sir, without resolution. Un. Summa totalis three and twenty poundes nyneteene shillings and sevenpence.
They were all in fact bribed by the very bill by which he would be punished. His property was supposed to amount to considerably more than four hundred thousand pounds. Two thirds of that property were equivalent to about sevenpence in the pound on the rental of the kingdom as assessed to the land tax.
One poor parish in this very Union is rated to the amount of FIVE AND SIXPENCE in the pound, at the very same time when the rich parish of Saint George's, Hanover-square, is rated at about SEVENPENCE in the pound, Paddington at about FOURPENCE, Saint James's, Westminster, at about TENPENCE! It is only through the equalisation of Poor Rates that what is left undone in this wise, can be done.
For their work to-day, work that few men out of China would be capable of attempting, the three coolies were paid sevenpence each, out of which they found themselves, and had to pay as well one penny each for the hire of the chair.
She receives the visitor and the visitor's remarks with an air quite unconscious of tragic meditation; and her honest labour-stained hand sweeps over the things on the table. "Cheese!" she says, at last "eightpence the 'arf pound!" A pause. The hand points in another direction. "Lard sevenpence that scrubby little piece! Sugar! sixpence 'a'penny the pound. The best part of two shillin's gone!
She was an adept in enticing an inebriated husband to leave a public-house. She could feed four children for a day on sevenpence, and rise calmly to her feet after having been knocked down by one stroke of a fist. She could go without food, sleep, and love, and yet thrive. She could give when she had nothing, and keep her heart sweet amid every contagion.
Here, too, might be seen the shop of the immortal Lesage, renowned throughout the Quartier for the manufacture of a certain kind of transcendental ham-patty, peculiarly beloved by student and grisette; and here, clustering within a stone's throw of each other, were to be found those famous restaurants, Pompon, Viot, Flicoteaux, and the "Boeuf Enragé," where, on gala days, many an Alphonse and Fifine, many a Théophile and Cerisette, were wont to hold high feast and festival terms sevenpence half-penny each, bread at discretion, water gratis, wine and toothpicks extra.
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