[Thyrza by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookThyrza CHAPTER XVII 19/30
He sent for you to bail him out.' 'Why, there! Tut-tut-tut! What a fellow that is! Fightin'? Why now, didn't I tell him this afternoon as he looked like pickin' a quarrel wi' somebody? But, I say, Jane, it's a low-life kind o' thing for to go a-fightin' in the streets.' 'Of course it is.
What'll he come to next, I wonder? The sooner he gets off to Canada, the better, I sh'd say.
But he'll not go; he talks an' talks, an' it's all just for showin' off.' Mr.Poole had risen. 'Bail? Why, I don't know nothin' about bail, Jane! How d'you do it? I hadn't never nothing to do with folks as got locked up.' 'I don't suppose you never had, Jim, till now.' 'Nay, hang it, Jenny, I wasn't for alludin' to that! Give me my coat. How much money have we in the house? I've sixpence 'apenny i' my pocket.' 'It ain't done with money; you'll have to sign something, I think.' 'All right.
But I'll read it first, though.
Who was it as come, did you say ?' 'Nay, I don't know.
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