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'I should not mind trying them all,' said Gerald. 'Only one never
does have such things for breakfast. Last winter a lot of us
skated to Ely, and we ate two or three loaves of bread and a whole
cheese, at a pot-house! And as for beer, we drank the public
dry.'
'It was because for the time you had been a hedger and ditcher.'
'Proby was a ditcher I know, when he went right through into one
of the dykes. Just push on that dish Silverbridge. It's no good
you having the trouble of helping me half-a-dozen times. I don't
think things are a bit the nicer because they cost a lot of money.
I suppose that is what you mean, sir.'
'Something of that kind, Gerald. Not to have money for your
wants;--that must be troublesome.'
'Very bad indeed,' said Silverbridge, shaking his head wisely, as
a Member of Parliament might do who felt that something should be
done to put down such a lamentable state of things.
'I don't complain,' said Gerald. 'No fellow ever had less right to
complain. But I never felt that I had quite enough. Of course it
was my own fault.
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