much as that not so much sir i tell you that a hundred thousand pounds is a well i know it s a big sum mr here there was a general laugh all the other present were more cultivated than mr s is the french for trifle my friend said mr christian don t talk over people s heads so scales i shall have hard work to understand you myself soon come that s a good one said the head gardener who was a ready admirer i should like to hear the thing you don t understand christian he s a first rate hand at said mr scales rather don t be man fu ring the bell for and make some punch that s the thing for putting people up to the unknown tongues said mr christian starting up and scales s shoulder as he passed him what i mean mr is this here mr scales paused to puff and pull down his waistcoat in a gentlemanly manner and drink he was wont in this way to give his hearers time for meditation come then speak english i m i� t against being taught said the reasonable what i mean is that in a large way of trade a man turns his capital over almost as soon as he can turn himself bless your soul i know something about these eh � h� the radical to be sure you do � few men more said the gardener who was the person appealed to not that i ve had any thing to do with commercial families myself those feelings that i look to other things besides but i can t say that i ve not been intimate with parties who have been less nice than i am myself and knowing what i know i shouldn t wonder if had as much as five hundred thousand bless your soul sir people who get their money out of land are as long five pounds together as your trading men are turning five pounds into a hundred that s a wicked thing though said mr however he went on retreating from this difficult ground trade or no trade the have been poor enough this many a long year i ve a brother a tenant on their estate � i ought to know a little bit about that they ve kept up no establishment at all said mr scales with disgust they ve even let their kitchen gardens i suppose it was the eldest son s gambling i ve seen something of that a man who has always lived in first rate families is likely to know a thing or two on that subject ah but it wasn t gambling did the first mischief said mr with a slight smile feeling that it was his turn to have some superiority new comers don t know what happened in this country twenty and thirty year ago i m turned fifty myself and my father lived under sir s father but if any body from london can tell me more than i know about this country side i m willing to listen what was it then if it wasn t gambling said mr scales with some impatience t pretend to know it was law � law � that s what it was not but what the always won and always lost said the too ready scales yes yes i think we all know the nature of law there was the last suit of all made the most noise as i understood continued mr but it wasn t tried they said there was a deal o false swearing some young man pretended to be the true heir � let me see � i can t justly remember the names � he d got two ite swore l e was one man and they swore he was another however lawyer won it � they say he d win a game against the old one himself � and the young fellow turned out to be a stop a bit � his name was � henry mr christian here let a slip from his hand into the punch bowl with a which sent some of the into the company s faces what a i am he said looking as if he were quite by this unusual awkwardness of his go on with your tale mr � a named harry well that s the tale said mr he was never seen nothing of any more it was a deal talked of at the time and i ve sat by and my father used to shake his head and always when this mrs was talked of he used to shake his head and say she carried things with a high hand once but lord it was before the battle of and i m a poor hand at tales i don t see much good in em but if any body u tell me a cure for the sheep rot i ll thank him here mr into smoking and silence a little that the knowledge of which he had been delivered had turned out rather a and insignificant birth well well by should be by there are secrets in most good f said mr scales and this young coming back with a fortune to keep up the establishment and have things done in a decent and gentlemanly way � it would all have been right if he d not been this sort of radical madman but now he s done for himself i heard sir say at dinner j i � l i � thb radical that he would be and that s a pretty strong take it what does it mean scales said mr christian who loved ay what s the meaning insisted mr encouraged by finding that even christian was in the dark well it s a law term � speaking in a sort of way � meaning that a radical was 