As for salary--you can fix it yourself, when you have ascertained by actual experience the character of your work.

What do you say ?" Mr.Fortescue put this question as if he had no doubt about my answer, and I fulfilled his expectation by answering promptly in the affirmative.

The proposal seemed in every way to my advantage, and was altogether to my liking; and even had it been less so I should have accepted it, for what I had just heard greatly whetted my curiosity, and made me more desirous than ever to know the history of the extraordinary man with whom I had so strangely come in contact, and ascertain the secret of his wealth.
The same day I wrote to Alston announcing the dissolution of our partnership, and leaving him to deal with the horses at Red Chimneys as he might think fit..