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I was in the shilling gallery. He who owes me L100, ma'am, he in a private box!" "Ah! you are sure; by himself?" "With a lady, ma'am, a lady in a shawl from Ingee. I know them shawls. My father taught me to know them in early childhood, for he was an ornament to British commerce, a broker, ma'am, pawn!
"And the gentleman, you say, was at Mr. Courtland's." "Yes, Sir, that I'm sure of," replied the intelligent Mrs. Holwell; "they said he had come lately from Ingee."
You see the captain went to live with one Sharpe Currie, a relation who had a great deal of money, and very little liver; made the one, and left much of the other in Ingee, you understand. The captain had expectations of the money. Very natural, I dare say; but Lord, sir, what do you think has happened? Sharpe Currie has done him.
"And the gentleman, you say, was at Mr. Courtland's." "Yes, Sir, that I'm sure of," replied the intelligent Mrs. Holwell; "they said he had come lately from Ingee."
"Should Gar'ner come home successful, Mary," inquired the deacon, "successful in all things successful in sealing, and successful in that other matter the West Ingee business, I mean but successful in all, as I daily pray he may be, I want to know if you would then have him; always supposing that he got back himself unchanged?"
You see the captain went to live with one Sharpe Currie, a relation who had a great deal of money, and very little liver; made the one, and left much of the other in Ingee, you understand. The captain had expectations of the money. Very natural, I dare say; but Lord, sir, what do you think has happened? Sharpe Currie has done him.
And," continued Rugge, with a withering smile, "that man in a private box, which at the Princess's costs two pounds two, and with the spoils of Ingee by his side, lifted his eyeglass and beheld me, me in the shilling gallery! and his conscience did not say, 'Should we not change places if I paid that gentleman L100? Can such things be, and overcome us, ma'am, like a summer cloud, without our special I put it to you, ma'am wonder?"
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