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The Three Clerks

CHAPTER XXVIII
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It's a silver turnip, so I only got fifteen shillings; yours is a Cox and Savary, and it's gold.

I'm sure you'd get L3 for it easily--perhaps L3 3s.

Now, if you'll do that, and take my turnip down, I'll let you have the turnip to wear, if you'll let me have ten shillings of the money.

You see, you'd get clear--let me see how much.' And Scatterall went to work with a sheet of foolscap paper, endeavouring to make some estimate of what amount of ready cash Charley might have in his pocket on completion of this delicate little arrangement.
'You be d----,' said Charley.
'You'll not do it, then ?' said Dick.
Charley merely repeated with a little more emphasis the speech which he had just before made.
'Oh, very well,' said Scatterall; 'there couldn't have been a fairer bargain; at least it was all on your side; for you would have had the watch to wear, and nearly all the money too.' Charley still repeated the same little speech.

This was uncivil; for it had evidently been looked on by Scatterall as unsatisfactory.
'Oh, very well,' said that gentleman, now in a state of mild anger--' only I saw that you had a fine new purse, and I thought you'd wish to have something to put in it.' Charley again repeated his offensive mandate; but he did it in a spirit of bravado, in order to maintain his reputation.


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