[Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookTwo Years Ago, Volume II. CHAPTER XXIV 13/42
If he can find out for me what I want, I will give him five pounds." "Shouldn't I do as well? If you gi' it he, it's little out of it I shall see, but he coming home tipsy when it's spent.
Ah, dear! it was a sad day for me when I first fell in with they play-goers!" "Why should she not do it as well ?" said Thurnall.
"Mrs.Barker, do you know anything of a person named Briggs--John Briggs, the apothecary's son, at Whitbury ?" She laughed a harsh bitter laugh. "Know he? yes, and too much reason.
That was where it all begun, along of that play-going of he's and my master's." "Have you seen him lately ?" asked Campbell, eagerly. "I seen 'un? I'd hit this water over the fellow, and all his play-acting merryandrews, if ever he sot a foot here!" "But have you heard of him ?" "Ees--" said she carelessly; "he's round here now, I heard my master say, about the 'Delphy, with my master: a drinking, I suppose.
No good, I'll warrant." "My good woman," said Campbell, panting for breath, "bring me face to face with that man, and I'll put a five-pound note in your hand there and then." "Five pounds is a sight to me: but it's a sight more than the sight of he's worth," said she suspiciously again. "That's the gentleman's concern," said Tom.
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