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When McNutt was handed his letter by the postmaster and storekeeper he stared at its contents in a bewildered way that roused the loungers to amused laughter. "What's up, Peggy?" called Nick Thorne from his seat on the counter. "Somebody gone off'n me hooks an' left ye a fortun'?"
"You look like a young gentleman of fortun'," he said, "and do credit to your governor." "I suppose that means you, Dick," said Fosdick, laughing. "In course it does." "You should say of course," said Fosdick, who, in virtue of his position as Dick's tutor, ventured to correct his language from time to time. "How dare you correct your gov'nor?" said Dick, with comic indignation.
Whereupon Natty Bell crossed his legs and leaning back in his chair fell a-singing to himself in his sweet voice, as was his custom when at all inclined to deep thought: "A true Briton from Bristol, a rum one to fib, He's Champion of England, his name is Tom Cribb;" "Ah! and you likewise tell me as our Barnabas has come into a fortun'." "Seven 'undred thousand pound."
Renshaw hez contractin' business, sez I; 'got a big thing up in Sacramento that'll make his fortun','sez I for I wasn't goin' to give yer away, don't ye see? He had some business to talk to you about the ship, sez she, lookin' at me under the corner of her pocket-handkerchief. 'Lots o' business, sez I. 'Then I reckon he don't care to hev me write to him, sez she.
"No, sir," says Cobbs; "thanking you, sir, I find myself as well sitiwated here as I could hope to be anywheres. The truth is, sir, that I'm a-going to seek my fortun'." "O, indeed, Cobbs!" he says; "I hope you may find it." And Boots could assure me which he did, touching his hair with his bootjack, as a salute in the way of his present calling that he hadn't found it yet. Well, sir!
Joe laid his hand upon my shoulder with the touch of a woman. I have often thought him since, like the steam-hammer that can crush a man or pat an egg-shell, in his combination of strength with gentleness. "Pip is that hearty welcome," said Joe, "to go free with his services, to honor and fortun', as no words can tell him.
"London," exclaimed Natty Bell, "a gentleman our Barnabas what?" "Bide an' listen, Natty Bell," said the ex-champion, beginning to fill his new pipe. "I'm listening, John." "Well then, you must know, then, his uncle, my scapegrace brother Tom you'll mind Tom as sailed away in a emigrant ship well, Natty Bell, Tom has took an' died an' left a fortun' to our lad here." "A fortun', John! how much?"
It seems only a few days ago that you was a little scrub of a chap, runnin' 'round town and pickin' up your livin'. And a very good and honest livin' you picked up, too. Now, here you are, a nicely dressed, tall, handsome young man, with a snug little fortun' all of your own earnin', not to mention your bein' the adopted son of that splendid old gentleman, Myndert Van Quintem.
He also made known to me for the first time in my life, and certainly after having kept his secret wonderfully well, that he had always said of me, "That boy is no common boy, and mark me, his fortun' will be no common fortun'." He said with a tearful smile that it was a singular thing to think of now, and I said so too.
Maybe it's an agent of Barnum's, who expects to make a fortun' by exhibitin' the valooable wardrobe of a gentleman of fashion." Dick did not shed many tears over his loss, as, in his present circumstances, he never expected to have any further use for the well-worn garments.
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