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If you can give me a couple of envelopes , I 'll be obliged to you . ' `` With that the surgeon goes to fetch the envelopes , and the young chap takes a pocket-book out of his coat pocket with his left hand ; the cover was wet and dirty , but the inside was clean enough , and he tears out a couple of leaves and begins to write upon 'em as you see ; and he writes dreadful awk ` ard with his left hand , and he writes slow , but he contrives to finish what you see , and then he puts the two bits o ' writin ' into the envelopes as the surgeon brings him , and he seals 'em up , and he puts a pencil cross upon one of 'em , and nothing on the other : and then he pays the surgeon for his trouble , and the surgeon says , ai n't there nothin ' more he can do for him , and ca n't he persuade him to stay in Brentwood till his arm 's better ; but he says no , no , it ai n't possible ; and then he says to me , ` Come along o ' me to the railway station , and I 'll give you what I 've promised . ' `` So I went to the station with him . We was in time to catch the train as stops at Brentwood at half after eight , and we had five minutes to spare . So he takes me into a corner of the platform , and he says , ` I wants you to deliver these here letters for me , ' which I told him I was willin ' . ` Very well , then , ' he says ; ` look here ; you know Audley Court ? ' ` Yes , ' I says , ` I ought to , for my sweetheart lives lady 's maid there . '