And the laver was a handbreadth thick: and the brim thereof was like the brim of a cup, or the leaf of a crisped lily: it contained two thousand bates.
Since all this started, they've kept a plain-clothes man on watch at Lord Gillingham's set in Albany, and now I'm told that Mrs bates was seen there, loitering outside.
Our business being, yo' understand, to take the bated' wage, and be thankful, and their business to bate us down to clemming point, to swell their profits.