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I have a expert vid me who knows vat dis is vorth, but he is busy vid a customer on de next floor, and I doan sent for him. If you vant de tventy tollars you can have it. If you doan, den take avay de lace. I got a lot of t'ings to do more as to talk about it. Ven you see Blobbs, you tell him vat I say." Dalton's mind worked rapidly.
"The legs that is, three of them are Chippendale. The back is a nondescript of something I cannot tell. Perhaps from some colonial remnant." "Vot's it vorth?" "Nothing, except to sit upon." Otto laughed a gurgling, chuckling laugh, his pudgy nose wrinkling like a rabbit's. "Ain't dot funny!" and he rubbed his fat hands. "Dot's true.
"Perhaps, however, you will loan me thirty dollars on it and hold the lace for a week or so, and I will pay you back thirty-five when some money that is due me comes in?" Otto looked at him from under his bushy eyebrows. "Ve don't do dot kind of business. If I buy I buy. If I sell I sell. Sometimes I pay more as a t'ing is vorth. Sometimes I pay less.
That's a good time for a young fella to get busy again on somethin' vorth while. Ain't I right?" Laurie suppressed a yawn and carefully struck off with his little finger the firm ash of an excellent cigarette. He was consuming thirty or forty cigarettes a day, and his nerves were beginning to show the effect of this indulgence. "I believe it is," he courteously agreed.
"'Ha, Jan, he said ven I show it, 'dis iss a notion! I'll gif you ten dollar for dat notion. "'No, I say. 'If you say ten dollar I know it vorth more, for I know vat you can do. But let it be more, and I may sell it. "Den he talk. Dere is risk, he say, and he must spend much money, but he say it vill take.
To-night's changed everything for me, and you, too. You are goin' to stand by me, aren't you, Churn, through thick and thin?" "You bettcha life! For de whole of vot I'm vorth!" Kit's tone changed. She chuckled. "You may be worth a lot. You've married a rich heiress. See?" "Sh, girl! If Chuff comes spyin' on us we don't vant him to hear dat word 'married. He'd only laugh or vorse." "All right!
I artervards discovered she was French. She was werry thin, and as pale as a soft-shelled clam; there was a dark blue color under her eyes, like these here muscle shells. At first, she used to buy ninepence worth of oysters. Arter a while it came down to fourpence; and one day she only vanted two cents vorth. I asked her who they vas for, and she said, "For my grandfather; he is very sick, sare."
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