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'Yes; or Monday will do, observed Tom. 'No, no, I beg your pardon. Monday will NOT do, said Mr Tigg. 'If we stipulated for this week, Saturday is the latest day. Did we stipulate for this week? 'Since you are so particular about it, said Tom, 'I think we did.
The half-expressed idea seemed no less ludicrous to Mr Tigg than to his friend, for he laughed too, heartily. Being, resumed David, 'being amenable your property in Bengal being amenable to all claims upon the company; when I look at you and think of that, you might tickle me into fits by waving the feather of a pen at me. Upon my soul you might!
If that is Mr Pinch, I will venture to express a hope that I see him well, and that he is suffering no inconvenience from the easterly wind? 'Thank you, said Tom. 'I am very well. 'That is a comfort, Mr Tigg rejoined. 'Then, he added, shielding his lips with the palm of his hand, and applying them close to Mr Pinch's ear, 'I have come for the letter. 'For the letter, said Tom, aloud.
On receipt of this assurance, Mr Tigg shook him heartily by both hands, protesting with much earnestness, that he was one of the most consistent and remarkable men he had ever met, and that he desired the honour of his better acquaintance.
I have a heart that swells in my bosom. I have a soul that rises superior to base considerations. 'Oh Chiv, Chiv, murmured Mr Tigg, 'you have a nobly independent nature, Chiv!
'Then, said Tigg Montague, 'we grant annuities on the very lowest and most advantageous terms known in the money market; and the old ladies and gentlemen down in the country buy 'em. Ha, ha, ha! And we pay 'em too perhaps. Ha, ha, ha! 'But there's responsibility in that, said Jonas, looking doubtful. 'I take it all myself, said Tigg Montague. 'Here I am responsible for everything.
Might he not, gents both, I ask, have sat upon a tripod in the ancient times, and prophesied to a perfectly unlimited extent, if previously supplied with gin-and-water at the public cost? Mr Pinch was about to contest this latter position with his usual mildness, when, observing that his companion had already gone downstairs, he prepared to follow him. 'You are not going, Mr Pinch? said Tigg.
Mr Tigg looked curiously at him. He made so long a pause, that Tigg came to the rescue, and said, in his pleasantest manner: 'Take a glass of wine. 'No, no, returned Jonas, with a cunning shake of the head; 'none of that, thankee. No wine over business. All very well for you, but it wouldn't do for me.
'Not satisfied! cried Tigg. 'The money comes in well. 'The money comes in well enough, retorted Jonas, 'but it don't come out well enough. It can't be got at easily enough. I haven't sufficient power; it is all in your hands.
'I can tell you, said Tigg in his ear, 'how many of 'em will buy annuities, effect insurances, bring us their money in a hundred shapes and ways, force it upon us, trust us as if we were the Mint; yet know no more about us than you do of that crossing-sweeper at the corner. Not so much. Ha, ha! Jonas gradually broke into a smile.
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