The shilling is all-potent in England. It opens churches and towers, swings back the ponderous gates of the castle, introduces the stranger into the sacred places of old abbeys and convents, and bows the possessor obsequiously through the palaces of the nobles of the realm. It wins esteem and commands respect, attracts observation and hides defects. In a word, it is sovereign ; and doubly blest is he who “in silken or in leathern purse retains a splendid shilling.’ 1
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Evening Star, Issue 7404, 27 December 1887, Page 2
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79Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Evening Star, Issue 7404, 27 December 1887, Page 2
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