14/21 "The point is how much will you pay me if I do that ?" "Very well, I will pay you fifty pounds." "Mashallah! You must need it awfully badly. I could have been hired for fifty shillings to do a much more dangerous thing!" "Well, twenty-five pounds ought to be enough. I will pay you twenty- five." "Nothing less than fifty!" Jeremy retorted. "I always get fifty of everything. Fifty lashes in the jail--fifty beans at meal-time--fifty pairs of boots to clean for Ramsden--fifty is my lucky number. |