The Fortunes of Glencore
The Fortunes of Glencore
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"Arrah, musha!--it's a pity!" and such-like expressions of compassionate import, were muttered on all sides; but no more active movement seemed to flow from the condolence, while in a lower tone were added such expressions as, "Sorra mend him--if he wasn't a naygar, wouldn't he have a horse of his own? It's a droll lord he is, to be begging the loan of a baste!"
Something like a malediction arose to the Corporal's lips; but restraining it, and with a voice thick from passion, he said,--
"I 'm ready to pay you--to pay you ten times over the worth of your--"
"You need n't curse the horse, anyhow," interposed Rabbitskin, while with a significant glance at his friends around him, he slyly intimated that it would be as well to adjourn the debate,--a motion as quickly obeyed as it was mooted; for in less than five minutes Craggs was standing beside the quay, with no other companion than a blind beggar-woman, who, perfectly regardless of his distress, continued energetically to draw att
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I couldnt find anything in it about commodity trading ?
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