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let out as much, which I didn't mean to do, I'll tell you something else--ten shillings is no use to me, I must have a pound." "Titty, Titty!" exclaimed Huckaback, with unaffected concern. "And I won't give more than fifty for it when I get my property either"---- [Huckaback whistled aloud, and with a significant air buttoned up the pocket which contained the money; intimating that now the negotiation was all at an end, for that Titmouse's new terms were quite out of the question;] "for I know where I can get twenty pounds easily, only I liked to come to a _friend_ first." "You aren't behaving much like a friend to one as has always been a fast friend of yours, Titty! _A pound!_--I haven't got it to part with, that's flat; so, if that's really your lowest figure, why, you must even go to your other friend, and leave poor Hucky!" "Well, I don't mind saying only ten shillings," quoth Titmouse, fearing that he had been going on _rather_ too fast. "Ah, that's something reasonable-like, Titty! and to meet you like a friend, I'll take fifty pounds instead of a hundred; but you won't object now to--you know--a deposit; that ring of yours--well, well! it don't signify, since it goes against you; so now, here goes, a bit of paper for ten shillings, ha, ha!" and taking a pen, after a pause, in which he called to mind as much of the phraseology of money securities as he could, he drew up the following stringent document, which I give _verbatim et literatim_:-- "_Know all Men_ That you are bound to _Mr. R. Huckaback_ Promising the Bearer (on _Demand_) To Pay Fifty Pounds in cash out of the estate, _if you Get it_. (Value received.) "(Witness,) 22d July 18--. "R. HUCKABACK." "There, Titty--if you're an honest man, and would do as you would be done by," said Huckaback, after signing his own name as above, handing the pen to Titmouse, "sign that; just to show your honor, like--for in course--bating the ten shillings I've lent you--I sha'n't ever come on you for the money--get as much as you may." A blessed thought occurred to poor Titmouse in his extremity, viz. that there was _no stamp_ on the above instrument, (and he had never seen a promissory-note or bill of exchange without one;) and he signed it instantly, with many fervent expressions of gratitude. Huckaback received the valuable security with apparently a careless air; and after cramming it into his pocket, as if it had been in r
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