A Colonial Wooing
Neighbor Watson, if thee will but remember."
"It must be all proper, I do not doubt, but forty pounds—"
"Well, William, thee has now a chance to receive back thy money, and what has been thy share of the profits of the venture has proved an excellent interest. But thy capital as now invested is worth something more than the original sum now, and I will make a proper agreement with thee when we meet at William Emley's," John replied, assuringly, and his timid partner felt much more as if every penny due him was to be really paid back, but a flood of conflicting impressions so confused the poor fellow he could find nothing to say. He had been in safe hands while with John, and to some extent knew his business, but what of this new venture with all the glittering generalities that Matthew Watson hung about it? He could not feel so sure. William's brain was of one-idea capacity, and now he was forced to battle with a dozen; no wonder he was miserably bewildered.
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