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295 numbers, to prevent any dissatisfaction--though it’s more than I’ve been accustomed to give--fifteen shillings a week, and find yourself. There!’ With this handsome offer, Mr Gregsbury once more threw himself back in his chair, and looked like a man who had been most profligately liberal, but is determined not to repent of it notwithstanding. ‘Fifteen shillings a week is not much,’ said Nicholas, mildly. ‘Not much! Fifteen shillings a week not much, young man?’ cried Mr Gregsbury. ‘Fifteen shillings a--’ ‘Pray do not suppose that I quarrel with the sum, sir,’ replied Nicholas; ‘for I am not ashamed to confess, that whatever it may be in itself, to me it is a great deal. But the duties and responsibilities make the recompense small, and they are so very heavy that I fear to undertake them.’ ‘Do you decline to undertake them, sir?’ inquired Mr Gregsbury, with his hand on the bell-rope. ‘I fear they are too great for my powers, however good my will may be, sir,’ replied Nicholas. ‘That is as much as to say that you had rather not accept the place, and that you consider fifteen shillings a week too little,’ said Mr Gregsbury, ringing. ‘Do you decline it, sir?’ ‘I have no alternative but to do so,’ replied Nicholas. ‘Door, Matthews!’ said Mr Gregsbury, as the boy appeared. ‘I am sorry I have troubled you unnecessarily, sir,’ said Nicholas, ‘I am sorry you have,’ rejoined Mr Gregsbury, turning his back upon him. ‘Door, Matthews!’ ‘Good-morning, sir,’ said Nicholas. |
