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But the last time and hard to believe 'twas little more than a month ago he halts on his way out, and says he, searchin' awkward-like in his breeches' pocket with his left hand, 'Ned, says he, 'my old friend' aye, sir, his old friend he called me 'Ned, says he, pullin' out a fistful o' gold, 'my old friend, says he, 'I'll compound with you for two guineas, this bein' the last time you may hold the door open for me, in or out.
Just as they must have served you knocked every bit of sense out of me. There warn't much in, as old Tipsy says, but I didn't know no more till I found myself here, feeling sick as a dog, and not able to move, for I was lying awkward-like on my back, with some of them thin rotan canes tied round my arms and legs so tight that it was only at times I knowed I had any arms and legs at all."
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