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Barnaby Rudge

CHAPTER 13
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'Mind that too.' 'Then why don't you let me have some money of my own ?' retorted Joe, sorrowfully; 'why don't you, father?
What do you send me into London for, giving me only the right to call for my dinner at the Black Lion, which you're to pay for next time you go, as if I was not to be trusted with a few shillings?
Why do you use me like this?
It's not right of you.

You can't expect me to be quiet under it.' 'Let him have money!' cried John, in a drowsy reverie.

'What does he call money--guineas?
Hasn't he got money?
Over and above the tolls, hasn't he one and sixpence ?' 'One and sixpence!' repeated his son contemptuously.
'Yes, sir,' returned John, 'one and sixpence.

When I was your age, I had never seen so much money, in a heap.

A shilling of it is in case of accidents--the mare casting a shoe, or the like of that.


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