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Old 12-05-2008, 09:01 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by pucette2008 View Post
it is the exact text i have checked...
In that case the only suggestion I have is that the "three" refers to a further division of the currency: three farthings. So: one shilling, eleven pence, three farthings. I had thought that the farthing had disappeared by Virginia Woolf's time, but I may be mistaken...
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