human
What do you make on an average a week?
gpt
Well, on an average, five or six pounds--more than that a good deal in the season, but very little just at this time of year; in a month or so I shall be beginning again.
human
I should like to join you, Fielding,
gpt
Aye, but what capital could you put in? I acknowledge I could do very well with a partner who would take one end of the town while I took the other. I could easily double the business. But I should want a good sum of money with one. I have been, as I told you, a year and a half at it, and have got a good connection together.
human
How much do you call a good sum?
gpt
That would depend upon the man, Fielding answered.
human
I have known you well, and I am sure we should pull well together. I would take a hundred pounds with you; not for my own use, mind, but to lay in a bank in our joint names. You see it makes the beginning of an account, and we could pay in there all we took, and settle our losses by cheques, which looks much better, and would give us a much better name altogether.
gpt
I should have difficulty in getting a hundred pounds, Robert said; and indeed the sixty pounds the pony carriage had fetched had melted away very fast; for Robert had spent a large amount in this daily search for employment, and Sophy often wondered to herself, with a little sigh, how Robert could possibly spend as much money as he did.
human
No, Fielding, I am sure I could not manage a hundred, but I think I could go as far as sixty.
gpt
Suppose you think it over, Gregory, and see what you can do. Let us meet here again to-morrow at the same time, and then we will enter into it again; and I will bring you some of my old books to show you that what I say is correct.
human
Very well,