6/20 "And now give me some money, please, that I may relieve their present necessities until my brother can go to this place. I do not consent to give myself, unless I am certain that I free those I love from anxieties. I should like, immediately, a thousand francs. Forty pounds of your money, isn't it ?" "I will send the notes up in a few minutes," Francis Markrute said. He was in the best of tempers to-day. |