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What would you do it for ? ' This bargain also was completed , and the dealer went his way . Thereupon Reardon set to work to dispose of his books ; by half-past one he had sold them for a couple of guineas . At two came the cart that was to take away the furniture , and at four o'clock nothing remained in the flat save what had to be removed on the morrow . The next thing to be done was to go to Islington , forfeit a week 's rent for the two rooms he had taken , and find a single room at the lowest possible cost . On the way , he entered an eating-house and satisfied his hunger , for he had had nothing since breakfast . It took him a couple of hours to discover the ideal garret ; it was found at length in a narrow little by-way running out of Upper Street .