[Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookDoctor Thorne CHAPTER IV 14/36
There is no doubt he'll let you have it.
Scatcherd will let you have it; but I know he'll expect to have the title deeds." "What! for ten thousand pounds ?" said the squire.
"There is not a registered debt against the property but his own and Armstrong's." "But his own is very large already." "Armstrong's is nothing; about four-and-twenty thousand pounds." "Yes; but he comes first, Mr Gresham." "Well, what of that? To hear you talk, one would think that there was nothing left of Greshamsbury.
What's four-and-twenty thousand pounds? Does Scatcherd know what rent-roll is ?" "Oh, yes, he knows it well enough: I wish he did not." "Well, then, why does he make such a bother about a few thousand pounds? The title-deeds, indeed!" "What he means is, that he must have ample security to cover what he has already advanced before he goes on.
I wish to goodness you had no further need to borrow.
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