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In Luck at Last

CHAPTER XIII
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You lent Mr.Emblem fifty pounds.

Will you take your fifty pounds, and leave us in peace ?" He drew a bag out of his pocket--a brown banker's bag--and Mr.Chalker distinctly heard the rustling of notes.
This is a sound which to some ears is more delightful than the finest music in the world.

It awakens all the most pleasurable emotions; it provokes desire and hankering after possession; and it fills the soul with the imaginary enjoyment of wealth.
"Certainly not," said Mr.Chalker, confident that better terms than those would be offered.

"If that is all you have to say, you may go away again." "But the rest is usury.

Think! To give fifty, and ask three hundred and fifty, is the part of an usurer." "Call it what you please.


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