[The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mississippi Bubble CHAPTER IV 9/26
The speaker smiled gravely. "To-morrow," said he, "I must seek me out a goldsmith and a haberdasher, if you will be so good as to name such to me." "Sir," said Sir Arthur Pembroke, "in this plight you must allow me." He extended a purse which he drew from his pocket.
"I beg you, help yourself." "Thank you, no," replied John Law.
"I shall ask you only to show me the goldsmith in the morning, him upon whom I hold certain credits.
I make no doubt that then I shall be quite fit again.
I have never in my life borrowed a coin.
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