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Updated: September 30, 2025
Her sister took possession of me, and of her papers, and the wedding-ring now in the custody of Dettermain and Newson together with the portraits of both my parents; and she, poor soul, to sustain me, as I verily believe she had a great idea of my never asking unprofitably for anything in life bartered the most corroborative of the testificatory documents, which would now make the establishment of my case a comparatively light task.
Not that I think Fortune has abandoned us: but a sagacious schemer will not leave everything to the worthy Dame. I should have driven to her yesterday, if I had not heard from Dettermain and Newson that there was a hint of a negotiation for a compromise. Government is fairly frightened. He mused.
Not for ten, not for ten hundred times the sum! To be free from his boisterous influence, which made my judgement as unsteady as the weather-glass in a hurricane, I left my house and went straight to Dettermain and Newson, who astonished me quite as much by assuring me that the payment of the money was a fact. There was no mystery about it.
Peterborough's temporary absence had allowed me time for getting ample funds placed at our disposal through the agency of my father's solicitors, Messrs. Dettermain and Newson, whom I already knew from certain transactions with them on his behalf.
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