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Let him sell his wheat, and eat his oatmeal and rye; send his beef, mutton and poultry to market, and eat his pork and potatoes; make his own cloth, weave his own linen, and keep out of shops, and he'll soon grow rich there are more fortins got by savin than by makin, I guess, a plaguy sight he cant eat his cake and have it too, that's a fact.
A neighbouring miner, who had offered to weigh the result for them, pronounced this first day's work as an unusually successful one, being, he said, a little over thirty-six pounds sterling. "How much?" exclaimed Joe Graddy in amazement. "Thirty-six pounds sterling," repeated the miner. "You don't mean that?" "Indeed I do," replied the miner, smiling. "Then our fortins is made a'ready all but "
Clo played with her apron string again, and looked modestly down. But Dolf did not know exactly what to say next without committing himself more deeply than he desired; indeed, he had been led on now considerably farther than he could wish, but that was unavoidable. "Not but what fortins is desirous," he said, "'cause in dis wuld people must lib."
"I don't half like it," said one; "it seems to me a sneaking way of doin' it." "Bah!" ejaculated another, "wot gammon you do talk. If he lose the boat, don't we lose the tin? Besides, are we agoin' to let sich a trifle stand in the way o' us an' our fortins?" "Have ye spoken to the other men, Elliot?" inquired one of the group. "Ay, in coorse I have; an' they're all agreeable.
"He spoke to you in the yard." "That's a fact." "What did he tell you?" She hesitated for a moment, evidently trying to tax her memory; then, "Nothing," she replied, "that he had not already said before the Fortins; that he wanted to see you on important business, and was sorry not to find you in.
"I was half asleep at the time; but Fortin can tell us." M. Fortin, who looked about twenty years younger than his wife, was one of those small men, blonde, with scanty beard, a suspicious glance, and uneasy smile, such as the Madame Fortins know how to find, Heaven knows where.
As he was out of earshot, the four adventurers drew their heads still closer together, and talked eagerly about their prospects. "Sure our fortins is made already," said Rooney; "how much d'ee think we've fished up, Mr Berrington?" "I cannot say, but at a rough guess I should think not less than twenty thousand pounds." "Ye don't main it? Och! Molly astore!
He was interrupted by the commissary of police, whose kind protection had hitherto preserved Mlle. Lucienne. He was coming out of the little room on the ground-floor, which the Fortins used for an office, bedroom, and dining-room. He had recognized Marius de Tregars, and, coming up to him, he pressed his hand, saying, "Well, you know?" "Yes."
Now, you know-at least I can tell 'ee that my old chum Willum is as rich as a East Injin nabob. You wouldn't believe, madam, what fortins some gold-diggers have made. W'y, I've seed men light their pipes with fi'-pun' notes for a mere brag out there. I've made a goodish lump o' money myself too, a'most more than I know what to do with, an' as to Willum, I may say he's actooally rollin' in gold.
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