Those M&D words 8: Knit-wit

[Ya Sam]

"For this sort of thing he has receiv'd nearly audible glares,— 'tis a 
finely pois'd arrangement here at The Moon. In return for suffering the 
familiarities of a celebrity-mad Knit-wit, Maskelyne is allow'd to run up a 
Tab, already legendary even in a hard-drinking port like this, that might 
finance a small War,— chargeable to the Royal Society of course, and beyond 
them, should they demur above a sum Mr. Blackner is not certain of (which 
will disagreeably prove to be but five shillings per Day), to the 
wealthy-without-limit Clive of India. "

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