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The Three Clerks

CHAPTER XXIV
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'I think a couple of thousand would carry it, and I could make out the other myself.' 'Every shilling I have,' said Alaric, 'is either in the Ballydehobs or in the Limehouse Bridge.

Why don't you sell yourself ?' 'So I have,' said Undy; 'everything that I can without utter ruin.

The Ballydehobs are not saleable, as you know.' 'What can I do for you, then ?' Undy set himself again to think.

'I have no doubt I could get a thousand on our joint names.

That blackguard, M'Ruen, would do it.' 'Who is M'Ruen ?' asked Alaric.
'A low blackguard of a discounting Jew Christian.


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