I confess I can't see why you should have objected--but let that pass.

How much do you want?
Fifty?
Say forty-five, and five I'll give you to pay to Sedgett--making fifty.

Eighty before, and fifty--one hundred and thirty.

Write that you owe me that sum, on a piece of paper.

I can't see why you should wish to appear so uncommonly virtuous." Algernon scribbled the written acknowledgment, which he despised himself for giving, and the receiver for taking, but was always ready to give for the money, and said, as he put the cheque in his purse: "It was this infernal fellow completely upset me.