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Charcam said this, not because he knew anything about the matter; but, having
received a couple of guineas to deliver the message, he, naturally enough,
estimated its importance by the amount of the gratuity. Sir John once more looked around him. ‘I’m taking you to Gerald,
my girl. He was not, in truth, much of a
ladies’ man. I am guilty practically of the
impertinence of coming to ask you whether I misunderstood your sister. She resolved to go
into the City to Ramage and ask for his advice. He and his friends (he had at
least two per class, even in Trigonometry) would make
their exits as quickly as possible. Yes, of course. Laughed at me, then. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew,
could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the
almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. Drink, and no
sustaining food. He just seemed to have
no interest, consumed with the hunt or his newfound
friend, Sebastianus, who supposedly would enable him to
expand his political ties to Rome. “She
tried everything, and last of all she tried the stage. She spent a very disagreeable afternoon and evening—it was raining
fast outside, and she had very unwisely left her soundest pair of boots in the
boothole of her father’s house in Morningside Park—thinking over the economic
situation and planning a course of action.
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