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If she said to Hugh: "Your boots are leaking," she was told: "Had I the soferens I would get a pair"; or if she said: "We haven't a towel in the place," the reply was: "Find the soferens and buy one or two." The more Hugh sorrowed and scrimped, the more he gained; and word of his fellows' hardships struck his broad, loose ears with a pleasant tinkle.
"Eleven soferens now," he cried to his wife. "That's grand! Makes twenty-one the first six months of the wedded life." "It reflects great credit on you," said Millie, concealing her unhappiness. "Another eighty and I'd have an agency. Start a factory, p'raps. There's John Daniel. He purchases an house. Ten hands he has working gents' shirts for him."
Bulky are soferens and shillings. If you lose two, you got the remnants. But they are showy and tempting." He laid the note under his pillow and slept, and he took it with him, secreted on his person, to Kingsend Chapel, where every Sunday morning and evening he sang hymns, bowed under prayer, and entertained his soul with sermons. Just before departing on Monday he gave the note to Millie.
Tell Him I will how my spirit, though the flesh was dead, bathed in the living rivers and walked in the peaceful valleys of the glorious land of my fathers thinking, thinking of Jesus." "Hold on. Not so fast. From Capel Bryn Salem I journeyed to mouth with my heart to the Lord, and your slut of widow paid me only four soferens. Eloquent sermon I spouted and four soferens is the price of a supply."
"Not paid my pew rent in Capel Charing Cross have I." "Easier for me to fly than bring the cash," said Annie. "Larger is your screw than me." Simon smote the ground with his umbrella and stayed further words. "Give the soferens, bullocks of Hell fire." Annie and Jane fach were distressed. The first said: "The flesh of the swine shall smell before I do."
"But whatever," said Hugh softening his spirit, "I got ten soferens in hand. Next quarter less you need and more you have. Less gass and electric. You don't gobble food so ravishingly in warm weather. The more I save." Having exchanged the ten pounds for a ten-pound note, remorse seized Hugh. "A son of a mule am I," he said. "Dangerous is paper as he blows. If he blows!
Simon put the coat over his arm and counted the money, and after he had drunk a little beer and eaten of bread and cheese, he made deals with a gravedigger and an undertaker, and the cost for burying Jacob was eight pounds. That night he was with his sisters, saying to them: "Twelve soferens will put him in the earth. Four soferens per each." "None can I afford," Jane fach vowed.
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