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272 like looking at a brick wall spring, summer, and winter.'

"Then he went on like a Turk and Tartar, and I smoked my pipe and looked in t' fire as comfortable and pleasant as could be, and I niver answered him a word until he said he'd find law enough in England to punish me. Then I told him there would happen be as much law for me as for him. 'It's a monstrous injustice!' cried he; and I laughed, and answered that law and justice weren't quite t' same thing, but that law was quite good enough for two men like him and me. 'And,' I added, 'there's a bit o' land of mine left beyond t' soap factory, and I could dig some tanning vats in it, and build some skin-drying sheds, and though it's a dirty business, I don't mind where gold comes from if it only comes to my purse, not I.' And then he went fuming out, and swore himsen into his carriage; and, to tell t' honest truth, Jonathan, I don't blame him. I'd hev done about t' same thing mysen."

Jonathan listened with a grave face. "I'm sorry, uncle. I don't mind Squire Bashpoole, nor what he says to me nor of me, and I hope you won't spend your money and annoy