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FIVE POUNDS FOR FLESH AND BLOOD.
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name you mention, and get him to give you five shillings a week for your rent for three months."
"So I'm to sell my own flesh and blood for a five-pound note?" the woman replied.
"Not unless you like. Come to my house this evening. I will get the clergyman to be there, and we'll settle it up at nine o'clock."
That night a woman emerged from the doctor's dispensary exclaiming, as she hurried along—
"Five pounds for my own flesh and blood! That's what Melbourne and drink's brought me to! And we was happy enough before we came to town."
