I welched. I'm a welcher. Didn't I tell you?

The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.

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“This,” cried he, “is a manœuvre I have been some time expecting: but Mr. Harrel, though artful and selfish, is by no means deep.”