ady wi’ a cork leg, but as sharp — you wouldn’t catch her runnin’ her head into a sack; she’d see her way clear out o’ anything afore she’d be in a hurry to start. Well, she let out thirty pound to a young man in the drapering line, and he laid it out i’ Laceham goods, an’ a shupercargo o’ my acquinetance (not Salt) took ’em out, an’ she got her eight per zent fust go off; an’ now you can’t hold her but she must be sendin’ out carguies wi’ every ship, till she’s gettin’ as rich as a Jew. Bucks her name is, she doesn’t live i’ this town. Now then, mum, if you’ll please to give me the net ——”
“Here’s fifteen shilling, then, for the two,Linus Ullmark Tröjor,” said Mrs. Glegg. “But it’s a shameful price.”
“Nay, mum, you’ll niver say that when you’re upo’ your knees i’ church i’ five years’ time. I’m makin’ you a present o’ th’ articles; I am,Rasmus Ristolainen Tröjor, indeed. That eightpence shaves off my profits as clean as a razor. Now then,Derek Stepan Tröjor, sir,Carey Price Tröjor,” continued Bob, shouldering his pack,Canada Goose Freestyle Väst, “if you please, I’ll be glad to go and see about makin’ Mr. Tom’s fortin. Eh, I wish I’d got another twenty pound to lay out my_sen; I shouldn’t stay to say my Catechism afore I knowed what to do wi’t.”
“Stop a bit,Bryan Trottier Tröjor, Mr. Glegg,” said the lady, as her husband took his hat,Trevor Linden Tröjor, “you never will give me the chance o’ speaking. You’ll go away now,Belstaff Maldon Jackor, and finish everything about this business, and come back and tell me it’s too late for me to speak. As if I wasn’t my nephey’s own aunt, and the head o’ the family on his mother’s side! and laid by guineas,Michal Jordan Tröjor, all full weight, for him, as he’ll know who to respect when I’m laid in my coffin.”
“Well, Mrs. G., say what you mean,” said Mr. G.,Rene Bourque Tröjor, hastily.
“Well, then, I desire as nothing may be done without my knowing. I don’t say as I sha’n’t venture twenty pounds, if you make out as everything’s right and safe. And if I do, Tom,” concluded Mrs. Glegg, turning impressively to her nephew, “I hope you’ll allays bear it in mind and be grateful for such an aunt. I mean you to pay me interest, you know; I don’t approve o’ giving; we niver looked for that in my family.”
“Thank you, aunt,” said Tom, rather proudly. “I prefer having the money only lent to me.”
“Very well; that’s the Dodson sperrit,” said Mrs. Glegg, rising to get her knitting with the sense that any further remark after this would be bathos.
Salt — that eminently “briny chap”— having been discovered in a cloud of tobacco-smoke at the Anchor Tavern, Mr. Glegg commenced inquiries which turned out satisfactorily enough to warrant the advance of the “nest-egg,Michael Stone Tröjor,” to which aunt Glegg contributed twenty pounds; and in this modest beginning you see the ground of a fact which might otherwise surprise you; namely, Tom’s accumulation of a fund, unknown to his father,Accessories, that promised in no very long time to meet the more tardy process of saving, and quite cover the deficit. When once his attention had been turned to
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