Digital heart book

Speedy, and one for his spouse--I will leave you to
conceive the enthusiasm that reigned in that small,
bare apartment, with the sewing-machine in the one
corner, and the babes asleep in the other, and pictures
of Garfield and the Battle of Gettysburg on the yellow
walls. Port-wine was had in by a sympathiser, and we
drank it mingled with tears.
"And I dhrink to your health, my dear," sobbed Mrs.
Speedy, especially affected by my gallantry in the
matter of the third share; "and I'm sure we all dhrink
to his health--Mr. Dodd of the picnics, no gentleman
better known than him; and it's my prayer, dear, the
good God may be long spared to see ye in health and
happiness!"
In the end I was the chief gainer; for I sold my third
while it was worth five thousand dollars, but the
Speedys more adventurously held on until the syndicate
reversed the process, when they were happy to escape
with perhaps a quarter of that sum. It was just as
well; for the bulk of the money was (in Pinkerton's
phrase) reinvested; and when next I saw Mrs.


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