on Saturday, and we are saved; and if you will, as you can, get it for me, I will give you 10,000_l_.

for the money!" B.then showed me to a fraction the accounts of the concern, and his own private account; proving beyond the possibility of a doubt, that with the 5,000_l_.

our office must be set a-going; and without it, that the concern must stop.

No matter how he proved the thing; but there is, you know, a dictum of a statesman that, give him but leave to use figures, and he will prove anything.
I promised to ask Mrs.Hoggarty once more for the money, and she seemed not to be disinclined.

I told him so; and that day he called upon her, his wife called upon her, his daughter called upon her, and once more the Brough carriage-and-four was seen at our house.
But Mrs.Brough was a bad manager; and, instead of carrying matters with a high hand, fairly burst into tears before Mrs.Hoggarty, and went down on her knees and besought her to save dear John.