[Love Eternal by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookLove Eternal CHAPTER II 25/31
"That box is full and locked, and there's a long outside list waiting as well.
Perhaps you mean with a K.You know money isn't everything, as some of you gentlemen seem to think, and if it were, you would have said fifty instead of fifteen." "K be damned!" replied Mr.Blake.
"I'm not a mayor or an actor-manager. Let's say B, that stands for Beginning as well as Baronet; also it comes before P, doesn't it ?" "Well, let's see.
You haven't a son, have you? Then perhaps it might be managed," replied the Whip with gentle but pointed insolence, for Mr. Blake annoyed him.
"I'll make inquiries, and now, shall we join the ladies? I want to continue my conversation with your daughter about the corruption which some enemy, taking advantage of her innocence, has persuaded her exists in the Conservative Party.
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