[Beyond the City by Arthur Conan Doyle]@TWC D-Link bookBeyond the City CHAPTER XV 14/17
I find that I can lay my hands on enough to pay my creditors." "Thank God!" said Clara fervently. "The sum is less than I thought, and our resources considerably more.
We have been able to do it with ease." "With ease!" The Doctor's brow clouded and his manner grew cold.
"I think, Harold, that you would do better to take this money of mine, than to use that which seems to you to be gained with ease." "Thank you, sir.
If I borrowed from any one it would be from you.
But my father has this very sum, five thousand pounds, and, as I tell him, I owe him so much that I have no compunction about owing him more." "No compunction! Surely there are some sacrifices which a son should not allow his parents to make." "Sacrifices! What do you mean ?" "Is it possible that you do not know how this money has been obtained ?" "I give you my word, Doctor Walker, that I have no idea.
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