![]() ![]() "Hi have you met my friend Kate, $12 per hour?"Įdit: I appreciate the answers everyone, it's making a lot more sense now. I'm guessing it must have been custom in the 1800s but I'm only asking now because the modern equivalent is. what is it, is that his income? And why do they know his income, is it published somewhere? Astonished to find another practicing magician, Mr Norrell accepts Strange as a pupil. Strange thinks nothing of enduring the rigors of campaigning with Wellington's army and doing magic on battlefields. The other one is when some men were talking about Jonathan. Jonathan Strange is handsome, charming, and talkative-the very opposite of Mr Norrell. Is that her salary? But she didn't seem to have a job? Why is it yearly? Does the guy get a share of it when he marries her? Look here:Īnd so like many other gentlemen before and after him, he made it his business to be particularly agreeable to heiresses whenever he met with any, and, being a handsome man with elegant manners and a clever way of talking, in no time at all he had captivated a Miss Erquistoune, a young Scottish lady with £900 a year. It seems that some of the men are poor and they look for rich women to get married to. The first is in the context of marriages. Why do people use it to describe other people? I'd appreciate an explanation! I have two examples. I'm able to follow most of it, except for the topic of "pounds per year" to describe people, that keeps coming up in different contexts. It's set in the 1800s so that might be a clue, but I'm ignorant of it. I'm currently reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. ![]()
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