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'All right, sir, he slowly and unwillingly admitted, in his reluctance to loose his hold, 'all right! And greedily watched his partner as he turned his back again, and turned his key again. 'There's nothing new, I suppose? said Venus, resuming his low chair behind the counter. 'Yes there is, sir, replied Wegg; 'there was something new this morning. That foxey old grasper and griper
"Have you any objection to letting me see a full statement of your affairs? Perhaps I can suggest something better than a failure, which is almost always the very worst thing that can be done." "Most gladly will I do so, Mr. Layton," returned Grasper; "and if you can point out any way by which I can get over my present difficulties, I shall be for ever under obligation to you."
Grasper did not venture to make any reply to this, lest he should betray, by his manner, the fact that he was the individual to whom allusion was made. He need not have been careful on this point, as the person with whom he was conversing knew very well who was the grasping creditor. A day or two afterwards, Layton took possession of his new store, and commenced arranging his goods.
Gradually, difficulties gathered around Grasper so thickly, that he found it almost impossible to keep his head above water. Two thirds of his time were spent in efforts to raise money to meet his payments, and the other third in brooding sadly and inactively over the embarrassed condition of his affairs. This being the case, his business suffered inevitably.
He was doing a very good business, and had a credit much more extensive than he cared about using. No one was more ready to sell him than Grasper, who frequently importuned him to make bills at his store. This he sometimes did, but made it a point never to give his note for the purchase, always paying the cash and receiving a discount.
This reason was more than suspected by Grasper and it worried him exceedingly. If Layton had refused to buy from him at all, he would have felt less annoyance. Year after year passed on, and Layton's business gradually enlarged, until he was doing at least four times as much as Grasper, who now found himself much oftener the buyer from, than the seller to, Layton.
There was an insulting rudeness in the way Grasper uttered this last sentence, that made the honest blood boil in the veins of his unfortunate debtor. He was tempted to utter a keen rebuke in reply, but restrained himself, and simply made answer: "Good intentions, I know, are not money.
And Grasper made a motion to turn from his debtor. But the case of Layton was too urgent to let him act as his indignant feelings prompted. "I meant no offence, I assure you, Mr. Grasper," he said, earnestly, "I only urged one among many reasons that I could urge, why you should spare a man in my situation." "While I have as many to urge why I shall not spare you," was angrily retorted.
As a grasper and feeler, the tongue of the giraffe is used, as the trunk of the elephants; and its great height enables it to gather the leaves of the mokhala far beyond the reach of the latter. The camelopard's skin is exceedingly thick, often as much as an inch and a half and so difficult of penetration, that frequently, twenty or thirty bullets are required to bring the creature to the ground.
This is my opinion of the matter, Mr. Grasper; and I freely express it, in the hope that, if ever another man is so unfortunate as to get in your debt without the means of present payment, that you will be less exacting with him than you were with me." Grasper writhed in spirit under this cutting rebuke of Layton, which was given seriously, but not in anger.
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