Brothers in Law (2012)
“The young man took it very well.’ ‘So should I take it very well,’ said George, ‘if someone told me I was going to be paid two or three times as much for doing nothing. Who are you going to have?’ ‘Plaistowe, I think,’ said Mr Merivale, ‘if he can take it.’ ‘And what’s that going to cost you?’ ‘I don’t know and I don’t care. When you’re an old man like me, you may find other ways of getting pleasure, though to look at you, George, one would think that you’ll be looking for something as unpleasa...nt as possible, but I know what I like and if I can pay for it, why shouldn’t I have it?’ ‘I don’t like to see money chucked away, sir. Plaistowe will want at least thirty. That means you’ll have to pay that bright young specimen of yours twenty, sir. Really, sir, it goes against the grain to give him anything at all – but twenty really is the limit. Why, we could have got any of the best juniors at the Divorce Bar to do it for fifteen at the most, sir.’ ‘I sometimes wonder why you trouble to call me “sir,”MoreLess
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