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'Even for a feeeks, OF course,' replied the turnkey And he followed

hiain with his eyes, and nodded his head seven tione The affairs of this debtor were perplexed by a partnership, of which he

knew no al nment and settlement, conveyance here and conveyance there,

suspicion of unlawful preference of creditors in this direction, and of

away of property in that; and as nobody on the face

of the earth could be le item in

the heap of confusion than the debtor hi comprehensible

could be made of his case To question him in detail, and endeavour

to reconcile his answers; to closet him with accountants and sharp

practitioners, learned in the wiles of insolvency and bankruptcy; was

only to put the case out at coers flutteredlip on every such occasion, and the sharpest practitioners

gave him up as a hopeless job 'Out?' said the turnkey, 'he'll never get out, unless his creditors take

him by the shoulders and shove him out'

He had been there five or sixto this

turnkey one forenoon to tell him, breathless and pale, that his as

ill 'As anybody ht a known she would be,' said the turnkey

'We intended,' he returned, 'that she should go to a country lodging