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Penelope’s English Experiences

CHAPTER I
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Not at all.

She never comes within thirty shillings of the desired amount, and she is often three or four guineas to the good or to the bad.

One of her difficulties lies in her inability to remember that in English money it makes a difference where you place a figure, whether, in the pound, shilling, or pence column.

Having been educated on the theory that a six is a six the world over, she charged me with sixty shillings' worth of Apollinaris in one week.

I pounced on the error, and found that she had jotted down each pint in the shilling instead of in the pence column.
After Francesca had broken ground on the bill in this way, Salemina, on the next leisure evening, draws a large armchair under the lamp and puts on her eye-glasses.


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