I got a draft on a Nassau house, and generally drew greenbacks.

But I saw, pretty plainly, that I couldn't draw very much for this new monarchical undertaking, and stay in Nassau as long as we had planned.
"A whole afternoon," exclaimed Priscilla, "for sixpence!" "Why not ?" I asked.

"That's more than you generally make all day." "Only sixpence!" said Priscilla, looking as if her tender spirit had been wounded.

Corny glanced at me with an air that suggested that I ought to make a rise in the price, but I had dealt with these darkeys before.
"That's all," I said.
"All right, then, boss," said Priscilla.

"I'll do it.