[Chance by Joseph Conrad]@TWC D-Link bookChance CHAPTER THREE--THRIFT--AND THE CHILD 66/92
If I had known I could have got you inside.
Plenty of room.
Interest been over for the last three days.
Got seven years.
Well, I am glad." "Why are you glad? Because he's got seven years ?" I asked, greatly incommoded by the pressure of a hulking fellow who was remarking to some of his equally oppressive friends that the "beggar ought to have been poleaxed." I don't know whether he had ever confided his savings to de Barral but if so, judging from his appearance, they must have been the proceeds of some successful burglary.
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