'I'm sorry for you,' said Martin.
'--To attend upon a single gentleman,' resumed Mark. 'If from the
country the more desirable. Makeshifts would be preferred. Wages no
object.'
He said this so pointedly, that Martin stopped in his eating, and said:
'If you mean me--'
'Yes, I do, sir,' interposed Mark.
'Then you may judge from my style of living here, of my means of keeping
a man-servant. Besides, I am going to America immediately.'
'Well, sir,' returned Mark, quite unmoved by this intelligence 'from all
that ever I heard about it, I should say America is a very likely sort
of place for me to be jolly in!'
Again Martin looked at him angrily; and again his anger melted away in
spite of himself.
'Lord bless you, sir,' said Mark, 'what is the use of us a-going round
and round, and hiding behind the corner, and dodging up and down, when
we can come straight to the point in six words? I've had my eye upon you
any time this fortnight. I see well enough there's a screw loose in
your affairs. I know'd well enough the first time I see you down at the
Dragon that it must be so, sooner or later.
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