Дэвид Копперфильд

The Emigrants

           

           OfcourseIansweredthisnotebygoingdownwiththeboytopaythemoney,whereIfoundMr.Micawbersittinginacorner,lookingdarklyattheSheriff‘sOfficerwhohadeffectedthecapture.Onhisrelease,heembracedmewiththeutmostfervour;andmadeanentryofthetransactioninhispocket-bookbeingveryparticular,Irecollect,aboutahalfpennyIinadvertentlyomittedfrommystatementofthetotal.

           Thismomentouspocket-bookwasatimelyremindertohimofanothertransaction.Onourreturntotheroomupstairs(whereheaccountedforhisabsencebysayingthatithadbeenoccasionedbycircumstancesoverwhichhehadnocontrol),hetookoutofitalargesheetofpaper,foldedsmall,andquitecoveredwithlongsums,carefullyworked.FromtheglimpseIhadofthem,IshouldsaythatIneversawsuchsumsoutofaschoolciphering-book.These,itseemed,werecalculationsofcompoundinterestonwhathecalled‘theprincipalamountofforty-one,ten,elevenandahalf’,forvariousperiods.Afteracarefulconsiderationofthese,andanelaborateestimateofhisresources,hehadcometotheconclusiontoselectthatsumwhichrepresentedtheamountwithcompoundinteresttotwoyears,fifteencalendarmonths,andfourteendays,fromthatdate.Forthishehaddrawnanote-of-handwithgreatneatness,whichhehandedovertoTraddlesonthespot,adischargeofhisdebtinfull(asbetweenmanandman),withmanyacknowledgements.

           ‘Ihavestillapresentiment,’saidMrs.

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