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One hundred guineas a year."
And thou wouldst trouble me for that much?"
It is enough to live upon."
Like a beggar."
As it becomes one of my sort."
One hundred guineas! It's a bagatelle."
What keeps you for a minute, keeps us for a year. That's the advantage
of the poor."
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Thou shalt have the place."
A week afterwards, thanks to Josiana's exertions, thanks to the
influence of Lord David Dirry-Moir, Barkilphedro--safe thenceforward,
drawn out of his precarious existence, lodged, and boarded, with a
salary of a hundred guineas--was installed at the Admiralty.
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