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"It's a pity he should not see some one, and I suppose you will not keep your appointment?" "Not if I knows it," the man answered. Then he added regretfully, "A regular toff he was free with his rhino as could be, and dressed up to the nines. He chucked his 'arf soverings about as if they were dirt, he did."
A right rig'lar swell! I knows 'em soverings an' red socks. What's come to our Mattie? 'Ere's Daddy Longlegs arter her, vith his penny and his blessin'! an' 'ere's this 'ere mighty swell vith his soverings an' his red socks! An' she's 'ungry, poor gal! This 'ere yellow-boy? I 'ain't got no faith in swells no more 'n in Daddy Longlegses I 'ain't! S'posin' he wants to marry her? Not if I knows it.
"Found the fortun' as he were always a-lookin' for, a sack o' golden soverings, sir, an' bank-notes, Mr. Belloo, sir, bushels on 'em; enough ah! more 'n enough to pay off that mortgage, and to send that theer old Grimes about his business, an' away from Dapplemere for good an' all, sir." "So Grimes is really paid off, then, is he, Adam?"
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