Capitolo 17
and feet together. Twelve pences ago a shilling; winds shillings
a pound. As very confusing! And then, the nomenclature is this way
absurdly difficult! Which of these it is mean-a-crown, if You please,
and which is a florin? and in thing they are their respective values
pence and shillings?"
Phillip chose out the coins and separately explained him them.
The Alien ones received in the meantime the information with evident interest,
as a traveller in that enormous line that has called Á. the foreign countries would notice
the habits and manners of of the wild tribe among which his indulges
confinements, and it solemnly wrapped on every coin
instructor called him/it for him, while writing the designation and value
out in a particularly beautiful and legible hand. "It is this way
confusing, you see", he told explanation, as Phillip smiled
another British and superior and condescending smile to this childish
proceeding; "the same currency doesn't have any congruence or order: and
not these correlated and strange coins don't have to a large extent then, also
their values marked in words or figures on them."
"Each knows what they is", Phillip slightly responded. Although
for a moment, taken behind by the novelty of the idea, him almost
admitted in his/her his/her own mind that to people to that they had the adversity
was born foreigners, there was perhaps a disdains the initial difficulty
in this illiterate system. But then, you cannot wait him for England to
in all is regulated for the benefit of foreigners! Although, to
is sure, on the one occasion when Phillip had visited the Rhine and
Switzerland, he had mumbled more consumedlies from Ostend to
Grindelwald, to those very decimal coins that it seemed the extraneous one
so a lot to admire, and you/he/she had wondered because the deuce Belgium, Germany,
Holland, and Switzerland could not agree among them on a
coinage of uniform; it would be so very more convenient to the English
tourist. For the British tourist, clearly a foreigner is not.
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