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Our Mutual Friend

CHAPTER 15
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In fact, I have got another offer to make you.' Mr Wegg (who had had nothing else in his mind for several nights) took off his spectacles with an air of bland surprise.
'And I hope you'll like it, Wegg.' 'Thank you, sir,' returned that reticent individual.

'I hope it may prove so.

On all accounts, I am sure.' (This, as a philanthropic aspiration.) 'What do you think,' said Mr Boffin, 'of not keeping a stall, Wegg ?' 'I think, sir,' replied Wegg, 'that I should like to be shown the gentleman prepared to make it worth my while!' 'Here he is,' said Mr Boffin.
Mr Wegg was going to say, My Benefactor, and had said My Bene, when a grandiloquent change came over him.
'No, Mr Boffin, not you sir.

Anybody but you.

Do not fear, Mr Boffin, that I shall contaminate the premises which your gold has bought, with MY lowly pursuits.


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