It is sold by the quart,one guinea being the standard price for that quantity.

"Well, as I was telling your Honour," he continued, "Guinea was then a maintopman, and I was stationed in the same place aboard the 'Proserpine,' a quick-going two-and-thirty, when we fell in with a bit of a smuggler, between the islands and the Spanish Main; and so the Captain made a prize of her, and ordered her into port; for which I have always supposed, as he was a sensible man, he had his orders.

A hundred guineas a year was the allowance I proposed.

She replied, "a guinea is a great deal of money, George; you had better ask your mother, first."

But guineas are not laurels, though for sundry practical uses they are, perhaps, vastly better; nor are the really earnest and ardent eulogia of the bard of Mulla the same in kind with the harmonious twaddle of Tate, or the classical quiddities of Pye.

but I needn't tell as old a seaman as your Honour, that Guinea is no country to scrape down the seams of a man's behaviour in.