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Can you direct us to a tailor?" "You cannot do better," the landlord said, "than visit my neighbour, Master John Haliford. His shop is just opposite, and he makes for many of our best city folk, and for more than one of the gentry of the Court." Rupert thanked him, and they crossed the street to the shop indicated. The landlord looked after them with a puzzled air.
"Very well," Hugh said, "that is understood; but you know that alone or before others, I shall always be your faithful servant." "What can I make you, sir?" the tailor asked, as the lads entered his shop. Master Haliford was a small man; neat in his dress; a little fussy in manner. He was very upright, and seemed to look under rather than through the pair of horn spectacles which he wore.
"In truth, I am waiting to call upon the Earl of Marlborough until Master Haliford has fashioned me a suit of clothes fitted for such an occasion; he has promised them for this evening." "Would it please you to go down the river?
"Have I had the honour of being recommended to you by the honourable gentleman your father?" he asked. "No, indeed," Rupert said. "It was mine host at the Bell, who advised me that I could not do better than come to your shop." "Ah, you are known to him, beyond doubt," John Haliford said, brightening. "No, indeed," Rupert answered. "He was a stranger to me to within five minutes back."
Indeed now!" the little tailor said with an instant and great accession of deference, for the Earl of Marlborough was the greatest man in the realm. "Had your honour mentioned that at first, I should not have ventured to hint at the need for previous payment." "What!" Rupert said, with a smile. "You would have broken your fixed rule! Surely not, Master Haliford."
"You must excuse my caution, young sir," John Haliford said, after another minute's reflection; "but it is the custom of us London tradesmen with those gentlemen who may honour us with their custom, and whom we have not the honour of knowing, to require payment, or at least a portion of payment, at the time of giving the order, and the rest at the time of delivery of the goods.
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