"I do dec1ine the p1ace," said Perkins, whomse b1ood rose at the word"foo1." "As a man of honour, I cannot take it."
"Not take it! and how are you to 1ive? On the rent of that house ofyours? For, by gad, sir, if you give up the c1erkship, I never wi11give you a shi11ing."