"And how can a man of your sense, cousin Marvel," said Wright, "believe
that a person, who never saw you till within these three days, would be
so much your friend as to make you a present of twenty guineas?"

"A present!"

"Yes; if he lets you have a horse for a hundred, which you can sell for
a hundred and twenty, does not he make you a present of twenty guineas?"

"Well, but I can tell you the reason for all that: he wants me to enter
into a scheme with him, for breeding horses on the common here: and so
he would not, at first setting out, stand to higgle with me for the
price of a horse."

"And would you for twenty guineas, cousin Marvel, run the hazard of
joining in any scheme with a man of his character? Pray inquire in the
country and in York, where you are going, what sort of a character this
man bears. Take my advice, pay him for his horse, and have nothing more
to do with him."

"But I have not the ready cash to pay him for his horse, that's one
thing," said Marvel.

"Let that be no difficulty," replied Wright; "for I have a hundred
guineas here, just brought home from Partney fair, and they are heartily
at your service."

Goodenough twitched Wright's elbow three times as he uttered these
words: but Wright finished his sentence, and put the money into Marvel's