Riley

"Auctioneer and vallyer"; Mr. Tulliver's friend through whose advice Tom is sent to school to Mr. Stelling. "Riley, you know—as can talk pretty nigh as well as if it was all wrote out for him, and knows a good lot o' words as don't mean much, so as you can't lay hold of 'em i' law ; and a good solid knowledge o' business, too."

<em>The Mill on the Floss</em>

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