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'I'll leave you, Scott, said Alaric, who did not enjoy the society of Mr. Manylodes, and to whom the nature of the conversation was, in his present position, extremely irksome; 'I must be back at the Bedford early. 'Early why early? surely our honest friend can get himself to bed without your interference. Come, you don't like the brandy toddy, nor I either.
'Well, I'll manage it, said Scott, still in a sort of whisper, but audibly enough for Alaric to hear. 'Forty, you say? I'll take them at L5 1s. 1d. very well; and he took out his pocket-book and made a memorandum. 'Come, Tudor, here's the bishop. We have done our business, so now we'll enjoy ourselves. What, Manylodes, are you off? 'Lord love you, Mr.
'Bribe or no bribe, said Undy, looking at his watch, 'I strongly advise you to do for him what he asks; it will be better for all of us. And let me give you another piece of advice: never use hard words among friends. Do you remember the Mary Janes which Manylodes brought for you in his pocket to the hotel at Tavistock? Here Alaric turned as pale as a spectre.
'Well, I suppose you can raise a couple of hundred L205 will cover the whole thing, commission and all; but, mind, I don't advise you to keep them long I shall take two months' dividends, and then sell. 'Two hundred and five pounds, said Tudor, to whom the sum seemed anything but trifling; 'and when must it be paid? 'Well, I can give Manylodes a cheque for the whole, dated this day week.
We'll see what sort of a hand they are at making a bowl of bishop. 'Not for me, Scott. 'Yes, for you, man; surely you are not tied to that fellow's apron-strings, he said, removing himself from the close contiguity of Mr. Manylodes, and speaking under his voice; 'take my advice; if you once let that man think you fear him, you'll never get the better of him.
'True, true we are all mortal Manylodes and Mary Janes; old friendships and New Friendships: while they last we must make the most we can of them; buy them cheap and sell them dear; and above all things get a good percentage, 'That's the game, Mr. Scott; and I will say no man understands it better than yourself keep the ball a-running that's your maxim. Are you going it deep in Mary Jane, Mr.
He would not give one shilling to Captain Val; he would not advance another shilling to Undy; and he would at once sell out his own shares, and make such immediate restitution as might now be in his power. The mention of Manylodes and the mining shares had come home to him with frightful reality, and nearly stunned him.
'There, now, is a specimen of a species of the genus homo, class Englishman, which is, I believe, known nowhere but in Cornwall. 'Cornwall and Devonshire, I suppose, said Alaric. 'No; he is out of his true element here. If you want to see him in all the glory of his native county you should go west of Truro. From Truro to Hayle is the land of the Manylodes. And a singular species it is.
Manylodes was not long in following them. He was a small man, more like an American in appearance than an Englishman. He had on a common black hat, a black coat, black waistcoat, and black trousers, thick boots, a coloured shirt, and very dirty hands. Though every article he wore was good, and most of them such as gentlemen wear, no man alive could have mistaken him for a gentleman.
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