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'And make your fortun' out of hand? added the Dodger, with a grin. 'And so be able to retire on your property, and do the gen-teel: as I mean to, in the very next leap-year but four that ever comes, and the forty-second Tuesday in Trinity-week, said Charley Bates. 'I don't like it, rejoined Oliver, timidly; 'I wish they would let me go. I I would rather go.
"No." "Well did ye fight any dooels?" "Not a single one." "Lord, young sir you 'ave been a-missing of your opportunities, you 'ave, playing fast and loose wi' Fortun', I calls it ah, fair flying in the face o' Providence! Now, if instead o' selling books I took to writing of 'em, and tried to write you into a novel, why, Lord, what a poor thing that there novel would be!
Did you make money at it?" "I retired on a fortun'," said Dick, "and now I've invested my capital in mercantile pursuits. There," and he took up one boot, and showed it to his visitor, "did you ever see a better shine than that?" "No, I didn't, that's a fact," said Clifton, admiringly. "You beat the young rascal I employ all hollow.
"You see what it is to be a man of fortun', Frank," said Dick, "and wear good clothes. I wonder what that chap'll say when he sees me blackin' boots to-morrow in the street?" "Perhaps you earn your money more honorably than he does, after all," said Frank. "Some of these mining companies are nothing but swindles, got up to cheat people out of their money."
"Well," answered the Chapman, clinking the five shillings in his pocket, "I aren't one to grumble at fate, nor yet growl at fortun'." "Why, then," said Barnabas, "I wish you good morning."
"You grinning hyaena"; and then, "Pleasant day, Mr. Ruck." "Goin' to make your fortun' in London, then?" said Mr. Ruck, with slow enjoyment. That last excursion took us along the causeway to Beeching, and so up the downs and round almost as far as Steadhurst, home. My moods, as we went, made a mingled web.
"That bye were a wonder!" he would say, looking round with a kindling eye; "went away to make 'is fortun' 'e did oh! 'e were a gen'us were that bye Jarge! You, Amos Baggett, were 'e a gen'us or were 'e not." "'E were!" Mr. Baggett would answer, with a slow nod.
"You can all be pulling caps for him afterwards." "'Me son, read Juliana, 'has business in Dublin this next week an' if you've no objections he could run out on an early train some mornin' an' pay his respects to yourself an' the girls an' he can be tellin' ye all about our place an' his prospects in life he's the only son I have an' its a good farm an' a comfortable house an' many a girl would think she was doin' well for herself so hopin' you'll think well of the idea I will say no more this time yours ancettery, TIMOTHY BRENNAN. P.S. My son Brian is six foot high an' has a beautiful head of hair he is very What in the name o' fortun' is that word, m'mah?"
'I don't so much as know your name, he said, 'but I've opened my heart free to you, for I'm thankful to you; with good reason. I'll take your advice, and keep clear of this 'Justice, suggested Toby. 'Ah! he said. 'If that's the name they give him. This Justice. And to-morrow will try whether there's better fortun' to be met with, somewheres near London. Good night. A Happy New Year!
"By the time you get to be a gray-headed veteran, you may get a chance to run errands for some big firm on the Bowery, which is a very cheerin' reflection." So Dick by his drollery and perpetual good spirits kept up Fosdick's courage. "As for me," said Dick, "I expect by that time to lay up a colossal fortun' out of shines, and live in princely style on the Avenoo."
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