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"I noticed extra workers coming out from the hiring agencies in Storisende, and the crop was all in across the Calders. Big wine-pressing this year?" "Yes, we're up to our necks in melons," the old planter grumbled. "Gehenna of a big crop. Price'll drop like a brick of collapsium, and this time next year we'll be using brandy to wash our feet in."
On the other hand, you could invest the money in bank-stock, so as to receive seventy or eighty dollars annually at interest. You must decide which investment you prefer. The land we may have to keep on hand four or five years, paying taxes yearly." "But the price'll go up." "There is no doubt of that. The city is extending northwards rapidly.
But he had rich friends. If he could only interest them in this protégée of his something might be done. And there were the "Fables." "Twenty guineas," he repeated. "Well, I'll do my best. In two days' time, Mrs. Fenton, I will come and see you and most likely all will be settled to your satisfaction." "Two days. Aye. No longer or maybe my price'll go up." "I shall not fail. Now, Mrs.
The real question was, what to do with Eli? Whereby, the purser and me bein' friends, I goes to him an' says, 'Look here, I says, 'we'll be paid off in ten days or so, an' there's a trifle o' prize-money, too. 'What price'll you sell us a cask o' the ship's rum say a quarter-puncheon for choice? 'What for? says he.
And th-e-n ..." He lowered his voice to a very confidential wheedle "the price'll begin to creep up Oh ... o ... oh! the real price, my beloved fellow-shareholders, the price at which one can really sell, the price at which one can handle the stuff." He gave a great breath of satisfaction. "Now d'ye see?
'Well, I ses, 'sir, to be 'onest with you, don't you mention that there fact to anybody but me' because when a lidy goes out of her mind over a lorst dawg up goes the price, and you can't calculate bank-rate, as they ses. The price'll go up fablous, Mr. Orkins; there's nothin' rules the market like that there.
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