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We staid together all night, and next morning at parting, instead of ten sherriffs, she gave me fifteen, which I was forced to accept. Remember, said she, that in two days you are to have a new guest; pray take care to give her a good reception: we come at the usual hour after sunset. I took care to have my hall in great order, and a nice collation prepared against they came.
In short, I had not passed a night so agreeably all the while I had been there. Next morning I would have put ten sherriffs in the lady's hands, but she refused them: I am not come to see you, said she, from a design of interest; you affront me: I am so far from receiving money, that I desire you to take money of me, or else I will see you no more.
He is willing to take fifty sherriffs for a necklace that is worth two thousand, which is a plain argument that it is stolen. The judge seat immediately to seize me, and, on coming before him, he asked me if the necklace in his hand was not the one I had exposed to sale in the bezestein? I told him it was. Is it true, said he, that you are willing to deliver it for fifty sherriffs?
The crier had been ordered to offer me fifty sherriffs by one of the richest jewellers in town, who had made that offer only to sound me, and try if I was acquainted with the value of the goods which I exposed to sale.
The crier returned, and calling me aside, instead of telling me that the necklace was valued at two thousand sherriffs, he assured me nobody would give me more than fifty. The reason is, added he, the pearls are false; so see if you can part with it at that price.
I say, I'll " "Oh, no indeed, not yet," said the young lady in alarm, "presently, please." "All right. Dig, I say, pass the word down to those fellows to fill up their mugs, do you hear? And fill up Sherriffs sister's mug too, and all those girls' down there. Look out now, and keep your eye on me."
She did not fail to return at the appointed hour three days after; and I did not fail to receive her with all the joy of a person that waited impatiently for her arrival. The evening and night we spent as before; and next day at parting, she promised to return the third day after. She did not go, however, without forcing me to take ten sherriffs more.
Arthur was comfortably packed between Sherriffs sister and Maple's second cousin, and cheered by game pie and mellowed by ginger ale, made himself vastly agreeable. "See that chap with the sandy wig!" said he to Miss Sherriff, "he's a baronet Sir Digby Oakshott, Baronet, A.S.S., P.I.G., and nobody knows what else he's my chum; aren't you, Dig?
Felgate mentally abused him for his pusillanimity, but saw no reason, for all that, for not turning the incident to account. He proclaimed poor Sherriffs wrongs to a few of the other malcontents. "It's hard lines," said he, "that just because of this wretched rule, Sherriff is to lose his scholarship.
In speaking this, she put her hand into her purse, took out ten sherriffs, and forced me to take them, saying, You may expect me three days hence after sunset. Then she took leave of me, and I felt that when she went, she carried my heart along with her.
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