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The Mississippi Bubble

CHAPTER VI
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But letters of credit--why need we trouble over such matters?
These English are but babes.

Give me a night or so in the week at the Green Lion, and we'll need no letters of credit, Will.

Look at your purse, boy--since you are the thrifty cashier of our firm!" "I like not this sort of gold," said Will Law, setting his lips judicially.
"Yet it seems to purchase well as any," said the other, indifferently.
"At least, such is my hope, for I have made debt against our purse of some fifty sovereigns--some little apparel which I have ordered.

For, look you, Will, I must be clothed proper.

In these days, as I may tell you, I am to meet such men as Montague, chancellor of the exchequer--my Lord Keeper Somers--Sir Isaac Newton--Mr.John Locke--gentry of that sort.


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