How can I get that reading, Wegg?
By,' tapping him on the breast with the head of his thick stick, 'paying a man truly qualified to do it, so much an hour (say twopence) to come and do it.' 'Hem! Flattered, sir, I am sure,' said Wegg, beginning to regard himself in quite a new light.

'Hew! This is the offer you mentioned, sir ?' 'Yes.

Do you like it ?' 'I am considering of it, Mr Boffin.' 'I don't,' said Boffin, in a free-handed manner, 'want to tie a literary man--WITH a wooden leg--down too tight.

A halfpenny an hour shan't part us.

The hours are your own to choose, after you've done for the day with your house here.