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The Three Clerks

CHAPTER IX
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But there's no chance of that.

I'll guarantee you against that.' 'But I shan't like to sell them.

I shan't choose to be trafficking in shares.

Buying a few as an investment may, perhaps, be a different thing.' 'Oh, Alaric, Alaric, to what a pass had your conscience come, when it could be so silenced!' 'Well, I suppose you can raise a couple of hundred--L205 will cover the whole thing, commission and all; but, mind, I don't advise you to keep them long--I shall take two months' dividends, and then sell.' 'Two hundred and five pounds,' said Tudor, to whom the sum seemed anything but trifling; 'and when must it be paid ?' 'Well, I can give Manylodes a cheque for the whole, dated this day week.

You'll be back in town before that.


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