The smallest clerkships, twopenny-halfpenny postmasterships in unheard-of villagesall, all that can be dispensed with, must make way for the friends of the incomers to power.

How strange, that in a country like this, boasting of its education, and certainly with every facility for its prosecutionhow strange, that in the very Athens of the Republic, the deluded masses should exhibit as complete ignorance as you could find in the gallery of any twopenny-halfpenny metropolitan theatre of the old country!

"That's young Annesley, the son of a twopenny-halfpenny parson down in Hertfordshire.

Jenkins slept forgiven beneath his twopenny-halfpenny tombstone, and Thompson, reflecting that not only was his own monument designed (with a canopy of Carrara marble), but the cost of it invested in the three per cents., walked contentedly back to the station, repeating on his way with gentle scorn "A Father kind, a Husband dear, A faithful Friend, lies buried here.