Boffin; the world may term it pride, paltry pride if you will, but they wouldn’t take it if you offered it; a loan, sir⁠—for fourteen weeks to the day, interest calculated at the rate of five percent per annum, to be bestowed upon any charitable institution you may name⁠—is all they want of you, and if you have the meanness to refuse it, count on being despised by these great spirits. There are the beggars of punctual business-habits too. These will make an end of themselves at a quarter to one p.m. on Tuesday, if no Post-office order is in the interim received from Nicodemus Boffin, Esquire; arriving after a quarter to one p.m.

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