By this exchange I may possibly obtain
the benefit of having a house to live in for the next
twelve months, but no other. Tozer, however, is altogether
wrong in his scent; and the worst of it is that his malice
will fall on you rather than on me.
What I want you to do is this: let us pay him one hundred
pounds between us. Though I sell the last sorry jade of a
horse I have, I will make up fifty; and I know you can, at
any rate, do as much as that. Then do you accept a bill,
conjointly with me, for eight hundred. It shall be done
in Forrest's presence, and handed to him; and you shall
receive back the two old bills into your own hands at the
same time. This new bill should be timed to run ninety
days; and I will move heaven and earth, during that time,
to have it included in the general schedule of my debts
which are to be secured on the Chaldicotes property.
The meaning of which was that Miss Dunstable was to be cozened into
paying the money under an idea that it was a part of the sum covered
by the existing mortgage.
What you said the other day at Barchester, as to never
executing another bill, is very well as regards future
transactions. Nothing can be wiser than such a resolution.
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