[The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Three Clerks CHAPTER IX 13/31
If you've brought a little money with you, now's your time.
But I tell you this, you'll find it sharp work for the eyesight.' 'Quick's the word, I suppose.' 'Lord love you! Quick! Why, a fellow must shave himself before he goes to bed if he wants to be up in time these days.' 'I suppose so.' 'Lord love you! why there was old Sam Weazle; never caught napping yet--why at Truro, last Monday, he bought up to 450 New Friendships, and before he was a-bed they weren't worth, not this bottle of brandy.
Well, old Sam was just bit by those Cambourne lads.' 'And how did that happen ?' 'Why, the New Friendships certainly was very good while they lasted; just for three months they was the thing certainly.
Why, it came up, sir, as if there weren't no end of it, and just as clean as that half-crown--but I know'd there was an end coming.' 'Water, I suppose,' said Undy, sipping his toddy. 'Them clean takes, Mr.Scott, they never lasts.
There was water, but that weren't the worst.
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