Note 167 — Chapter VIII · SOCIETY
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Levison offers the required advance, £700 in cash, £800 in coals. The captain expostulates, and is answered: “Lord! my dear Captin, £800 worth of coals is a mere nothink. With your connection you will get rid of them in a morning. All you have got to do ... is to give your friends an order on us, and we will let you have cash at a little discount.... Three or four friends would do the thing.... Why, ’tayn’t four hundred chaldron, Captin.... Baron Squash takes ten thousand of us every year; but he has such a knack; he gits the clubs to take them.”