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Jabesh M'Ruen was in the habit of relieving the distresses of such impoverished young gentlemen as Charley Tudor; and though he did this with every assurance of philanthropic regard, though in doing so he only made one stipulation, 'Pray be punctual, Mr. Tudor, now pray do be punctual, sir, and you may always count on me, nevertheless, in spite of all his goodness, Mr.
M'Ruen avoided courts of law as much as he could, and preferred a small safe trade; one in which the fall of a single customer could never be ruinous to him; in which he need run no risk of being transported for forgery, incarcerated for perjury, or even, if possibly it might be avoided, gibbeted by some lawyer or judge for his malpractices.
M'Ruen and Norah Geraghty, he had really been at work. 'Will it be finished by Saturday, Charley? said Norman. 'Yes at least I hope so; but if that's not done, I have another all complete. 'Another! and what is that called? 'Oh, that's a very short one, said Charley, modestly. 'But, short as it is, it must have a name, I suppose. What's the name of the short one?
'Give me the sovereign, said Charley, 'or I'll drag you in before them all in the bank and expose you; give me the other sovereign, I say. 'Ha, ha, ha! laughed Mr. M'Ruen; 'I thought you liked a joke, Mr. Tudor. Well, here it is. And now do be punctual, pray do be punctual, and I'll do anything I can for you.
'This is very kind of you, said Charley, in rather a doleful voice, for he was already becoming tired of Cursitor Street. Mr. M'Ruen twisted his head round inside his cravat, and put out three fingers by way of shaking hands with the prisoner. 'You seem pretty comfortable here, said M'Ruen. Charley dissented to this, and said that he was extremely uncomfortable.
M'Ruen had once explained to Charley, while endeavouring to make his young customer take the other three as a good value for L7 10s. in arranging a little transaction, the total amount of which did not exceed L15. In that instance, however, Charley, who had already dabbled somewhat deeply in dressing-cases, utterly refused to trade in the articles produced.
I hope you have brought a little of this with you; and Jabesh opened out his left hand, and tapped the palm of it with the middle finger of his right, by way of showing that he expected some money: not that he did expect any, cormorant that he was; this was not the period of the quarter in which he ever got money from his customer. 'Indeed I have not, Mr. M'Ruen; but I positively must get some.
Therefore, when he had walked the length of one street on his road towards his lodgings, he retraced his steps and made his way back to his old haunts. The house which he frequented was hardly more like a modern London gin-palace than was that other house in the city which Mr. M'Ruen honoured with his custom.
He came in with a jaunty laughing air, as though nothing particular had happened, and as if he had not a care in the world. And yet while he had been dressing he had been thinking almost more than ever of Norah Geraghty. O that she, and Mrs. Davis with her, and Jabesh M'Ruen with both of them, could be buried ten fathom deep out of his sight, and out of his mind!
Not that he was in a happy frame of mind; the united energies of Mr. M'Ruen and Mrs. Davis had been too powerful to allow of that; not that he had given over his projected plan of saying a long farewell to Mrs.
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