for tat, squire. Your nephew built a lock to annoy my nephew.' If there's anything I call a satisfactory payment, Burley, it is paying a man in his own coin. Now, then, when does ta expect the verdict about thy case?"
"Soon after the New Year."
"I'm impatient for it. If it isn't a fair one, we won't hev it at any price. We'll fight t' whole case oover. We'll take it to t' Lords and Commons before we'll be beat. My word, Jonathan! I'd like thee to see Matthew Rhodes's face to-morrow when I tell him I'm going to tackle Aske."
"Will ta see Rhodes to-morrow?"
"Ay; I hev a varry gratifying bit o' business with him. He hes some money to pay me in a case I won last week, only a right o' way, that one o' his clients robbed me of. I didn't want it, but I wouldn't hev it taken without leave or license, and it's turned out to be worth two hundred pounds and expenses. I'm going to see Rhodes to-morrow, and get t' little bit o' brass."
"I'll go with thee if ta likes."
"I'd like nothing better."
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