Pendennis should
administer a donation to herself.
I had brought but a small sum of money in my pocket-book, though Mrs.
Mackenzie, intimate with bankers, and having, thank Heaven, in spite of
all her misfortunes, the utmost confidence of all her tradesmen, hinted a
perfect willingness on her part to accept an order upon her friends,
Hobson Brothers of London.
This direct thrust I gently and smilingly parried by asking Mrs.
Mackenzie whether she supposed a gentleman who had just paid an
electioneering bill, and had, at the best of times, but a very small
income, might sometimes not be in a condition to draw satisfactorily upon
Messrs. Hobson or any other bankers? Her countenance fell at this remark,
nor was her cheerfulness much improved by the tender of one of the two
bank-notes which then happened to be in my possession. I said that I had
a use for the remaining note, and that it would not be more than
sufficient to pay my hotel bill, and the expenses of my party back to
London.
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