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L’Abbe Constantin

CHAPTER III
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It was then that for several months we were very poor." "And it was then," said Bettina, "that I used to lay the cloth." "I spent my life among the solicitors of New York, but no one would take up my case; everywhere I received the same reply: 'Your cause is very doubtful; you have rich and formidable adversaries; you need money, large sums of money, to bring such a case to a conclusion, and you have nothing.

They offer to pay your debts, and to give you ten thousand dollars besides.

Accept it, and sell your case.' But my father's last words rang in my ears, and I would not.

Poverty, however, might soon have forced me to, when one day I made another attempt on one of my father's old friends, a banker in New York, Mr.William Scott.

He was not alone; a young man was sitting in his office.
"'You may speak freely,' said Mr.Scott; 'it is my son Richard.' "I looked at the young man, he looked at me, and we recognized each other.
"'Susie!' "'Richard!" "Formerly, as children, we had often played together and were great friends.


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