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Mr. Samuel Weller happened to be at that moment engaged in burnishing a pair of painted tops, the personal property of a farmer who was refreshing himself with a slight lunch of two or three pounds of cold beef and a pot or two of porter, after the fatigues of the Borough market; and to him the thin gentleman straightway advanced.
'Do you comprehend me?''Not quite.''Don't you think--now, my dear Sir, I put it to you don't you think--that fifty pounds and liberty would be better than Miss Wardle and expectation?''Won't do--not half enough!' said Mr. Jingle, rising.
'Good round sum--a man like you could treble it in no time--great deal to be done with fifty pounds, my dear Sir.''More to be done with a hundred and fifty,' replied Mr. Jingle coolly.
'Money out of pocket-- posting, nine pounds; licence, three--that's twelve--compensation, a hundred--hundred and twelve--breach of honour--and loss of the lady--''Yes, my dear Sir, yes,' said the little man, with a knowing look, 'never mind the last two items.
'Twelve pounds a year,' replied Mr. Pickwick.
Sir,Having been instructed by Mrs. Martha Bardell to commence an action against you for a breach of promise of marriage, for which the plaintiff lays her damages at fifteen hundred pounds, we beg to inform you that a writ has been issued against you in this suit in the Court of Common Pleas; and request to know, by return of post, the name of your attorney in London, who will accept service thereof.
'And that the damages are actually laid at fifteen hundred pounds?' said Mr. Pickwick.
'"The whole amount is many thousands of pounds," said the attorney, looking over the papers.
'Fifty pounds each,' whispered Jinks, 'and householders, of course.''I shall require two sureties of fifty pounds each,' said the magistrate aloud, with great dignity, 'and they must be householders, of course.''But bless my heart, Sir,' said Mr. Pickwick, who, together with Mr. Tupman, was all amazement and indignation; 'we are perfect strangers in this town.
He should fine Weller two pounds for the first assault, and three pounds for the second.
He should fine Winkle two pounds, and Snodgrass one pound, besides requiring them to enter into their own recognisances to keep the peace towards all his Majesty's subjects, and especially towards his liege servant, Daniel Grummer.
'With what damages, gentlemen?''Seven hundred and fifty pounds.'
It mayn't be altogether safe, vith reference to gettin' out agin.'Deferring to his son's feeling upon this point, Mr. Weller at once sought the erudite Solomon Pell, and acquainted him with his desire to issue a writ, instantly, for the SUM of twenty-five pounds, and costs of process; to be executed without delay upon the body of one Samuel Weller; the charges thereby incurred, to be paid in advance to Solomon Pell.
This one hundred and fifty pounds, or whatever it may be --take it in round numbers--is nothing to you.
Now I ask you, my dear sir, not only as your legal adviser, but as your very true friend, will you let slip the occasion of attaining all these objects, and doing all this good, for the paltry consideration of a few pounds finding their way into the pockets of a couple of rascals, to whom it makes no manner of difference, except that the more they gain, the more they'll seek, and so the sooner be led into some piece of knavery that must end in a crash?
'You must make yourself, with as little delay as possible, master of Arabella's one thousand pounds.''Three per cent.
A thousand pounds is not much, Mr. Pickwick.'
'You're very right, Sir,' interposed Ben Allen, just awake enough to know that he had spent his thousand pounds without the smallest difficulty.
'Them things as is alvays a-fluctooatin', and gettin' theirselves inwolved somehow or another vith the national debt, and the chequers bill; and all that.''Oh! the funds,' said Sam.'Ah!' rejoined Mr. Weller, 'the funs; two hundred pounds o' the money is to be inwested for you, Samivel, in the funs; four and a half per cent.
'Clear head --man of the world--quite right--perfectly.''By compounding with his creditor, releasing his clothes from the pawnbroker's, relieving him in prison, and paying for his passage,' continued Perker, without noticing Jingle's observation, 'you have already lost upwards of fifty pounds.''Not lost,' said Jingle hastily, 'Pay it all--stick to business-- cash up--every farthing.
Her mother's brother, gentlemen, failed for eight hundred pounds, as a law stationer.'
As the elder Mr. Weller insisted on selling out his portion forthwith, they proceeded from the bank to the gate of the Stock Exchange, to which Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, after a short absence, returned with a cheque on Smith, Payne, & Smith, for five hundred and thirty pounds; that being the money to which Mr. Weller, at the market price of the day, was entitled, in consideration of the balance of the second Mrs. Weller's funded savings.
Sam's two hundred pounds stood transferred to his name, and Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, having been paid his commission, dropped the money carelessly into his coat pocket, and lounged back to his office.
'It don't much matter vether it's reduced counsels, or wot not,' said Sam; 'five hundred and thirty pounds is the sum, ain't it?'
"I think, Watson, that you have put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you."
"There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in notes," he said.
I took the paper from him and read as follows:"TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services.
Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a few hundred pounds.'"Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met.
"'That would suit me very well,' said I.'And the pay?'"'Is 4 pounds a week.'"'And the work?'"'Is purely nominal.'"'What do you call purely nominal?'"'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the building, the whole time.
On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have lost nothing by them."
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