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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XXIII
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'Why immediate ?' cried she.
He repeated it without replying to her.
'But, you tell me, Rowsley, why immediate?
If you're in want of money for her, you come to me, tell me, you shall have thousands.

I'll drive down to the City to-morrow and sell out stock.

Mr.Eglett won't mind when he hears the purpose.

I shall call five thousand cheap, and don't ask to see the money again.' 'Ah! double the sum to have your own way!' said he.
She protested that she valued her money.

She furnished instances of her carefulness of her money all along up to the present period of brutal old age.


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