That is, I believe, if it's above twenty pounds.

And Mr.Chips' bill against Mr.Barrett was, I have heard, twenty-three pounds and odd shillings.

Could anything be more preposterous?
And Mr.Chips deserves to lose his money!" Ah! to soar out of such a set as this, of which Laura Tinley is a sample, are not some trifling acts of inhumanity and practices in the art of 'cutting' permissible?
So the ladies had often asked of the Unseen in their onward course, if they did not pointedly put the question now.

Surely they had no desire to give pain, but the nature that endowed them with a delicate taste, inspired them to defend it.
They listened gravely to Laura, who related that not only English books, but foreign (repeated and emphasized), had been supplied by Mr.Chips to Mr.Barrett.
They were in the library, and Laura's eyes rested on certain yellow and blue covers of books certainly not designed for the reading of Mr.Pole.
"I think you must be wrong as to Mr.Barrett's position," said Adela.
"No, dear; not at all," Laura was quick to reply.

"Unless you know anything.