[The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wrecker CHAPTER X 9/41
You must be all fire and grit and dash from the word 'go.' That schooner and the boodle on board of her are bound to be here before three months, or it's B.U. S.T .-- bust." "I'll swear I'll do my best, Jim; I'll work double tides," said I."It is my fault that you are in this thing, and I'll get you out again or kill myself.
But what is that you say? 'If we go ahead ?' Have we any choice, then ?" "I'm coming to that," said Jim.
"It isn't that I doubt the investment. Don't blame yourself for that; you showed a fine, sound business instinct: I always knew it was in you, but then it ripped right out.
I guess that little beast of an attorney knew what he was doing; and he wanted nothing better than to go beyond.
No, there's profit in the deal; it's not that; it's these ninety-day bills, and the strain I've given the credit, for I've been up and down, borrowing, and begging and bribing to borrow.
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