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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: general notion of what I think ought to be done?merely my off hand notion. I perfectly understand; I listen with inexpressible anxiety, said Mr. Aubrey. Had I been consulted, we should have proposed to you, with reference to our bill, (which I candidly acknowledge contains a much more liberal entry than would be allowed on taxation, and which is none of my doing, )?Gammon knew the credit for candour which this acknowledgment of a fact of which Messrs Runnington's would quickly apprise him on looking at the bill, was likely to obtain for him with Mr. Aubrey ? I say, I should have proposed to you, in the first instance, the payment of our bill by instalments, during the next three or four years, provided you could have obtained partial security. But 1 am only one of three, and I know the determination of Mr. Quirk and Mr. Snap, not to listen to any proposal with reference to the mesne profits, which is not based upon?in short, they say, the bill must be paid at once without being looked into?I mean, he added quickly, without its being subjected to the harassing and protracted scrutiny which a distrustful, an ungrateful client, has it too frequently in his power to inflict. Oh, let me disguise nothing from you, my dear sir, in a conversation of this kind between two gentlemen, continued Gammon, with an admirable air of frankness, for he perceived that Mr. Aubrey looked slightly staggered. I am ashamed to acknowledge that that bill does contain exorbitant entries?entries which have led to very frequent and fierce disputes between me and my partners. But what is to be done? Mr. Quirk is the moniedman of the firm; and if you were to glance at the articles of our partnership?Gammon shrugged his shoulders and sighed, ?you would see the tyrannical extent of power over hi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217566100 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217566103 |
| Weight | 2.06 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.43 In |
| List Price | $31.08 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 646 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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