15/42 "There's your money! I trust you to do the work, as you've been paid beforehand." She caught up the gold, rang every piece on the table to see if it was sound; and then-- "Sally, you go down with these gentlemen to the Jonson's Head, and if he ben't there, go to the Fighting Cocks; and if he ben't there, go to the Duke of Wellington; and tell he there's two gentlemen has heard of his poetry, and wants to hear 'un excite. And then you give he a glass of liquor, and praise up his nonsense, and he'll tell you all he knows, and a sight more. It'll be a saving and a charity, for if he don't get it out of you, he will out of me." And she returned doggedly to her washing. "I have plenty of friends down at Whitbury still." "More than I have. |