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I was soon taken in execution for the damages; five hundred pounds of law expenses of my own, and as much more of Tuggeridge's. He would not pay a farthing, he said, to get me out of a much worse place than the Fleet. I need not tell you that along with the land went the house in town, and the money in the funds. Tuggeridge, he who had thousands before, had it all.
"Oh, Pa!" said she, "isn't he isn't he a nice young man?" "I'm HANGED if he ain't," says Tug. "What do you think of his giving me eighteenpence yesterday, and a bottle of lavender-water for Mimarann?" "He might as well offer to give you back the shop at any rate," says Jemmy. "What! to pay Tuggeridge's damages? My dear, I'd sooner die than give Tuggeridge the chance."
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