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Dry-shod did his best to put the matter to rights , and succeeded so much beyond his expectations that he got involved in a new speculation , which lie was unable to carry on without some further assistance , or the co-operation of a rich man . Of course he went again to the merchant . " It looks well ! " quoth the merchant , rubbing his hands ;
" it hath a twanging pulse in it ;— it gives a good foretaste smack of cent , per cent . ;—but I think I'd rather not engage myself in it . There is a doubt . " " So there is in every speculation , " answered the other ; " but look here—and here —and there you see—and thus we act "—and so he went on to the end , concluding with , " if vou refuse to join me in this
business , I shall lose everything and all your previous kindness will be utterly thrown away ! " " Zounds , " exclaimed the other , " but it shan ' t though ! " The merchant joined him in the speculation . At first it went pretty well ; but presentlv it got queer . The merchant looked queer corresponsively . He wanted to back out . He objected to advance more money . " Then , " said Dry-shod , " we shall lose all our previous time , labour , money , and hopes ; and instead of your having laid me under an obligation to you , all your kindness will have done me nothing but mischief ! " " D—n everything ! " shouted the enraged merchant ; " but we will go on with it , sir ! "
The merchant now took the speculation into his own hands , Dry-ahod retaining only his first small share . It went more queer than ever . The capitalist advanced more money , but the thing still went badly , to the annoyance of Dry-shod and the madness of the merchant . The will of the latter became implicated , and he went on desperately . Dry-shod' now remonstrated ; but the previous impulsive gradations were too
strong . " What ! " thundered the merchant , " stop now !—* stop now , and have all my previous money , time , labour ^ hopes , and kindness , thrown away ! " The merchant pursued the speculation in a headstrong way , like an excited gamester ; involved himself deeper and deeper ^
*—risked all upon a chance ; lost it ; and from a rich man became suddenly a poor man . The chagrin of Dry-shod on the mer * chant ' s account—for he was constitutionally unconcerned about himBelf—moved him to act beyond his habitual nature . He also engaged in u forlorn hope ; the attempt miscarried ; ln $ committed a fraud , in order to pay his just debts—as we oftbn
gee—and was sentenced to be hanged , —a thing no one § v& * takes into his calculations . A Oli his way to execution , he was met by the merchant with flying hair > and stamping on the ground . " Unfeeling' wretchV exclaimed he ^* " never Jo come to condole with in ? & $ toy
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 445, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/53/
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