9/30 Take the five pounds to Sedgett." Algernon strode about the room. "First of all, you stick me up in a theatre, so that I'm seen with a girl; and then you get behind me, and let me be pelted," he began grumbling. "And ask a fellow for money, who hasn't a farthing! I shan't literally have a farthing till that horse 'Templemore' runs; and then, by George! I'll pay my debts. Jews are awful things!" "How much do you require at present ?" said Edward, provoking his appetite for a loan. More like a thousand when I get to town. |