[The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Mary Cholmondeley]@TWC D-Link bookThe Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers CHAPTER XIX 13/16
"Have you no tongue ?" he said, angrily, looking up.
"Tell me the exact figure. Well? Keep nothing back." "I won't be given the whole," said Charles, with an oath.
"Give me enough to settle the Jews, and I will do the rest out of my income.
I won't get off scot free." "Well, then, have your own way, as usual, and name the sum you want. There, take it," he said, feebly, when Charles had mentioned with shame a certain hideous figure, "and go.
I shall never know what you do with it, so you can play ducks and drakes with it if you like.
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