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"How about something to eat?" I suggested. "Let's go to a restaurant and I'll buy
you lunch."
"Well, I ought to go home to the wife. I don't care much for these restaurants —
only four of them and they're all bad. Tell you what we'll do. We’ll get the wife
to pack up a lunch for us — she won't charge you more than half a dollar, and it
would cost you more for a greasy meal in a restaurant — and we'll go up to
Wade's Hill and enjoy the view while we eat.

Greasy meal: oily food

Para-12 Explanation
The clerk asked Bill about having lunch. He offered to buy lunch for both of
them from the restaurant. Bill replied that there were only four restaurants and
none of them were good. He said that he would get food from his wife. Bill also
suggested the clerk to buy a food parcel from his wife as he had to pay only half
a dollar, which was far less than the price of the restaurant meal which was oily
and non tasty. He also suggested that they both go up the Wade’s hill which was
a nice place to view while they had their lunch.

Para-13
I know that Bill’s helpfulness to the Young Fellow from the City was not
entirely a matter of brotherly love. I was paying him for his time; in the end I
paid him for six hours (including the lunch hour) at what was then a very high
price. But he was no more dishonest than I. I charged the whole thing to the
firm. But it would have been worth paying him myself to have his presence. His
cheerful country wisdom was very refreshing to a country boy like me who was
sick of the city. As we sat on the hilltop, looking over the pastures and creek
which slipped among the trees, he talked of New Mullion, and painted a picture
in words of all the people in it. He noticed everything, but no matter how much
he might laugh at people, he also understood and forgave their foolishness. He
described the minister’s wife who sang the loudest in church when she was
most in debt. He commented on the boys who came back from college in fancy
clothes. He told about the lawyer whose wife could never succeed in getting
him to put on both a collar and a tie on the same day. He made them all live. On
that day I came to know New Mullion better than I did the city and to love it
better.