of a job answers, an’ then you’ll come down handsome. Lors, it’s a fine thing to hev good kin. I got my bit of a nest-egg, as the master calls it, all by my own sharpness — ten England Dame Fodboldtrøjer suvreigns it was — wi’ dousing the Arjen Robben Pelipaidat fire at Torry’s mill, an’ it’s growed an’ growed by a bit Naisten Portugali Pelipaidat an’ a bit, till I’n got a matter o’ thirty pound to lay out, besides makin’ my mother comfor’ble. I should get more, on’y I’m Belgia such a soft wi’ the women — I can’t help lettin’ ’em hev such good bargains. There’s this bundle, now,” thumping it lustily, “any other chap ‘ud make a pretty penny out on it. But me! — lors, I shall sell ’em for pretty near what I paid for ’em.”
“Have you got a bit of good net, now?” said Mrs. Glegg, in a patronizing tone, moving from the tea-table, and folding her napkin.
“Eh, mum, Porto Alegrense not what you’d think it worth your while to look at. I’d scorn to show it you. It ‘ud be an insult to you.”
“But let Olympique Marseille me see,” said Mrs. Glegg, still patronizing. “If they’re damaged goods, they’re like enough to be a bit the better quality.”
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“All in good time,” said Mr. Glegg, really unwilling to cut short the dialogue. “Are you wanted at the wharf, Tom?”
“No, sir; I left Stowe in my place.”
“Come, put down your pack, and let me see,” said Mrs. Glegg, drawing a chair to the window and seating herself with much dignity.
“Don’t you ask it, mum,” said Bob, entreatingly.
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“Eh mum, I’m loth, that I am,” said Bob, slowly depositing his pack on the step, and beginning to untie it with unwilling fingers. “But what you order shall be done” (much fumbling in pauses between the sentences). “It’s not as you’ll buy a single thing on me — I’d be sorry for you to do it — for think o’ them poor women up i’ the villages there, as niver stir a hundred yards from home — it ‘ud be a pity for anybody to buy up their bargains. Lors, it’s as good as a junketing to ’em when they see me wi’ my pack, an’ I shall niver pick up Portugali such bargains for ’em again. Least ways, I’ve no time now, for I’m off to Laceham. See here now,” Bob went on, becoming rapid again, and holding up a scarlet woollen Kerchief with an embroidered wreath in the corner; “here’s a thing to make a lass’s mouth water, an’ on’y two shillin’— an’ why? Why, ‘cause there’s a bit of a moth-hole ‘i this plain end. Lors, I think the moths Naisten Arsenal Pelipaidat an’ the mildew was sent by Providence o’ purpose to cheapen the goods a bit for the good-lookin’ women as han’t got much money. If it hadn’t been for the moths, now, every hanlinks:
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