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The headstone and epitaph orders fell off: and two or three months later, when autumn came, Jude perceived that he would have to return to journey-work again, a course all the more unfortunate just now, in that he had not as yet cleared off the debt he had unavoidably incurred in the payment of the law-costs of the previous year.
Do what they would, there was always danger. Frank said little, and he slept little also. One night, just before the trial, Wingfield, the accountant of the Society, came down to Woking. He had managed the case all through for the directors. His visit was a sort of ultimatum. 'We are still ready to pay our own law-costs, said he, 'if you will allow the original claim.
It was that of a man, once a farmer of his, and a decent fellow oh, that he confessed! with whom he had had a long quarrel over a miserable sum of money, claimed by the tenant when he left his farm, and disputed by the landlord. The dispute had gone on for two years. The Squire's law-costs had long since swallowed up the original money in dispute.
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