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Updated: May 11, 2025
"'Mr Middlemiss, said he, as slowly as if he were spelling my name, 'my money I want, and my money I will have; and have it immediately, too. "'Sir, said I, 'the thing is impossible; I canna gie ye what I haena got. "'I dinna care for that, said he; 'if I dinna get it, I shall get you. "He had the cruelty to throw me into jail, just as I was beginning to gather my feet.
'Weel, Mr Swanston, I have no objections to sign my name, if, as you say, that be all that is in it, and if my doing so will be of service to you. "He grasped hold o' my hand wi' both o' his, and he squeezed it until I thought he would have caused the blood to start from my finger ends. "'Mr Middlemiss, said he, 'I shall never be able to repay you for this act o' kindness.
I had wrought nane to speak o' for ten years before, and my hands were quite oot o' use. I made but a puir job o' it. The first week I didna mak aboon half-a-crown; and that was but a sma' sum for the support o' a wife and half-a-dozen hungry bairns. Hooever, I was still as simple as ever; and there wasna a wife in the countryside that was a bad payer, but brought her web to Nicholas Middlemiss.
I never had to do wi' what ye call a bill in my life but once, which was merely writing my name upon the back o't, and that cost me three hundred pounds exactly sixteen pounds, two shillings and threepence, and a fraction, for every letter in the name of Nicholas Middlemiss, as my wife has often told me.
"'My dear Mr Middlemiss, said he, 'I am extremely sorry that you did not inform me that you were in want of cash sooner, as I have just, before I saw you, parted with all I can spare. But, if you be very much in want of it, I can give you a note, that is, a bill for the money, at three or six months.
But, come weel, come woe, I was still simple Nicol Middlemiss. Ne'er hae I been able to get the better o' my easy disposition. It has made me acquainted wi' misery it has kept me constantly in the company o' poverty; and, when I'm dead, if onybody erect a gravestane for me, they may inscribe owre it
"But just exactly six months and three days afterwards, a clerk belonging to a branch o' the Commercial Bank called upon me, and, after making his bow, said he 'Mr Middlemiss, I have a bill to present to you. "'A bill! said I, 'what sort o' a bill, sir? Is it an auctioneer's, for a roup o' furniture or a sale o' stock?
"'Oh, Mr Middlemiss, said he, 'it is o' no use telling ye o't, for I believe that sympathy has left this world, as weel as honesty. "'Ye're no very sure o' that, neighbour, says I; 'and I dinna think that ye do mysel' and other people justice.
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