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We will acknowledge your title as good, and we will demand of you quittance for the above sum, which you will grant us as king of France.

We were well quit of George Glen and his gang, though the price of the quittance was heavy.

When Khayyam quittance at Death's hand receives, And sheds his outworn life, as trees their leaves, Full gladly will he sift this world away, Ere dustmen sift his ashes in their sieves.

"All the more pleasure in receiving it," and placing a couple of gold pieces on the table, I received my quittance and change.

Lane smiled almost affably as he tossed the quittances upon the table.