The $500 Check — page 34: what you’re looking at

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A VISIT TO THE FACTORY. 91 there’s nothing suits me better than a dinner of cornec beef and cabbage.”’ ‘How vulgar the old man is!” thought Mrs. Marlowe. ‘‘He may have money, but his tastes are very common.”’ ‘*We never have corned beef and cabbage here,’’ she said, with a slight shudder. ‘‘ Very likely Bert Barton’s mother has it very often,’’ suggested Percy. ‘‘My dear,’’ said the squire, urbanely, ‘‘if Uncle Jacob really enjoys those dishes so much, you might provide them for his special use.’’ **T will think of it,’’ replied Mrs. Marlowe, shortly. Now that Uncle Jacob had hinted at the possession of wealth, Squire Marlowe beheld him as one transfigured. He was no longer a common, shabby old man, but a worthy old gentleman of eccentric ideas in the matter of vardroode and manners. **T wonder if Uncle Jacob wouldn’t advance mec twenty-five thousand dollars,’ was the thought that was passing through his mind as he gazed genially at his countrified guest. ‘‘It would help me amazingly in my business, and GOomichoo <S (E(@)