[Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson]@TWC D-Link bookLay Morals CHAPTER III--JONATHAN HOLDAWAY 6/10
I'm young, as you say, and it's my turn to carry the bundle; and don't you worry your bile, or we'll have sickness, too, as well as sorrow.' 'D' ye think that I'd forgotten you ?' said Jonathan, with something like a groan; and thereupon his teeth clicked to, and he sat silent with the tankard in his hand and staring straight before him. 'Why,' says Nance, setting on the ale to mull, 'men are always children, they say, however old; and if ever I heard a thing like this, to set to and make yourself sick, just when the money's failing.
Keep a good heart up; you haven't kept a good heart these seventy years, nigh hand, to break down about a pound or two.
Here's this Mr.Archer come to lodge, that you disliked so much.
Well, now you see it was a clear Providence. Come, let's think upon our mercies.
And here is the ale mulling lovely; smell of it; I'll take a drop myself, it smells so sweet.
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