( So, then, they are beggars and they have dignity. They won't offer the coats off their backs, or promises they cannot deliver.
He knows the sort, honourable to a fault. Hard business, quick to renege a pledge, if matters... complicate. His mouth sours and thins, and he wonders, to the heart of him, if it's worth taking the risk.
And then, the pieces come together. )
They for... up? ( And hastily: ) You ain't from here. ( Clear, for how she speaks, how she holds herself. ) Are you going up with them?
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He knows the sort, honourable to a fault. Hard business, quick to renege a pledge, if matters... complicate. His mouth sours and thins, and he wonders, to the heart of him, if it's worth taking the risk.
And then, the pieces come together. )
They for... up? ( And hastily: ) You ain't from here. ( Clear, for how she speaks, how she holds herself. ) Are you going up with them?