We must allow him L5 for the accommodation.

I suppose you can pay the money in at my banker's by that day ?' Alaric had some portion of the amount himself, and he knew that Norman had money by him; he felt also a half-drunken conviction that if Norman failed him, Captain Cuttwater would not let him want such a sum; and so he said that he could, and the bargain was completed.
As he went downstairs whistling with an affected ease, and a gaiety which, he by no means felt, Undy Scott leant back in his chair, and began to speculate whether his new purchase was worth the purchase-money.

'He's a sharp fellow; certainly, in some things, and may do well yet; but he's uncommonly green.

That, however, will wear off.

I should not be surprised if he told Neverbend the whole transaction before this time to-morrow.' And then Mr.Scott finished his cigar and went to bed.
When Alaric entered the sitting-room at the Bedford, he found Neverbend still seated at a table covered with official books and huge bundles of official papers.