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'I am sure you could let me have a thousand or so, said Undy. 'I think a couple of thousand would carry it, and I could make out the other myself. 'Every shilling I have, said Alaric, 'is either in the Ballydehobs or in the Limehouse Bridge. Why don't you sell yourself? 'So I have, said Undy; 'everything that I can without utter ruin. The Ballydehobs are not saleable, as you know.
'Now look here, Scott; you have threatened me with ruin and a prison, and I will not say but your threats may possibly prove true. It may be that I am ruined; but, if I fall, you shall share my fall. 'That's false, said Undy. 'I am free to hold my head before the world, which you are not. I have done nothing to bring me to shame.
Though those who dwell there be not angels, yet it is better to live with the Woodwards and Harry Norman, with Uncle Bat, or even with the unfortunate Charley, than with such as Alaric and Undy Scott. The man who is ever looking after money is fitting company only for the devils, of whom, indeed, he is already one. But Charley cannot any longer be called one of the Cottage circle.
'My dear Tudor, said he, 'your stomach is out of order, I can see it as well as possible from the way you talk. Here was an answer for a man to get to the most earnest appeal which he could make! Here was comfort for a wretch suffering from fear, remorse, and shame, as Alaric was suffering. He had spoken of his feelings and his heart, but these were regions quite out of Undy Scott's cognizance.
And then in the evening, on this evening and other evenings, on all evenings, they talked over the prospects of the West Cork and Ballydehob branch, and of the Limehouse Bridge, which according to Undy's theory is destined to work quite a revolution in the East-end circles of the metropolis. Undy had noble ideas about this bridge.
The next morning before breakfast he sauntered out to air himself in front of the hotel, and who should come whistling up the street, with a cigar in his mouth, but his new friend Undy Scott. Alaric Tudor was very much surprised. Had he seen Sir Gregory himself, or Captain Cuttwater, walking up the street of Tavistock, he could not have been more startled.
He could not, however, act in the matter without consulting Undy, so closely linked were they in the speculation; and even at the present price his own shares would not enable him to pay back the full amount of what he had taken. The joint property of the two was, however, at its present market price, worth L12,000 L10,000 would make him a free man.
'Oh, that's all bile, said Undy. 'You should give up fish for a few days, and take a blue pill at night. 'Scott, this money must be paid back at once, or I shall lose my senses. Fortune has so far favoured me as to enable me to put my hand at once on the larger portion of it. You must let me have the remainder. In God's name say that you will do so.
His courage did not fail him; he would willingly have taken Undy by the throat, could his doing so have done himself or his cause any good; but he felt that he was nearly overset by the cool deep villany of his companion. 'I have treated the girl badly very badly, he said, after a pause; 'whether or no you have done so too I leave to your own conscience, if you have a conscience.
To enable me to lend you the L5,000, and to enable me to join you in this speculation, L10,000 has been withdrawn from Clementina's fortune. 'I know nothing about that, said Scott. 'Know nothing about it! said Alaric, looking at him with withering scorn. But Undy was not made of withering material, and did not care a straw for his friend's scorn. 'Nothing whatever, said he.
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