'You don't mean to say that you have any objection ?' Mr.M'Ruen looked very sharply at his young client from head to foot.

'I don't know about bail,' he said: 'it's very dangerous, very; why didn't you send for Mr.Norman or your cousin ?' 'Because I didn't choose,' said Charley--'because I preferred sending to some one I could pay for the trouble.' 'Ha--ha--ha,' laughed M'Ruen; 'but that's just it--can you pay?
You owe me a great deal of money, Mr.Tudor.You are so unpunctual, you know.' 'There are two ways of telling that story,' said Charley; 'but come, I don't want to quarrel with you about that now--you go bail for me now, and you'll find your advantage in it.

You know that well enough.' 'Ha--ha--ha,' laughed the good-humoured usurer; 'ha--ha--ha--well, upon my word I don't know.

You owe me a great deal of money, Mr.
Tudor.

Now, what o'clock is it by you, I wonder ?' Charley took out his watch--the Cox and Savary, before alluded to--and said that it was past seven.
'Aye; you've a very nice watch, I see.