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Rhoda Fleming

CHAPTER XXI
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Take the five pounds to Sedgett." Algernon strode about the room.

"First of all, you stick me up in a theatre, so that I'm seen with a girl; and then you get behind me, and let me be pelted," he began grumbling.

"And ask a fellow for money, who hasn't a farthing! I shan't literally have a farthing till that horse 'Templemore' runs; and then, by George! I'll pay my debts.

Jews are awful things!" "How much do you require at present ?" said Edward, provoking his appetite for a loan.
"Oh, fifty--that is, just now.

More like a thousand when I get to town.
And where it's to come from! but never mind.


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