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Van Draagen might not understand it, you see. Here they are. Have you a patch-box handy for them in your pocket? Why what ails the woman? You may thank your stars there's some one here with her wits about her! None of your whimpering, I say, her comes Captain Karen." Two seafaring men here came up the garden path, the foremost small and dapper, with a ready address and astute countenance.
He is a generous young gentleman, and will make it up to you if you are at any loss in the matter." "A hundred times over!" exclaimed Amyas hotly. "Hardly that," said Karen. "Van Draagen might have been good for a round hundred if he'd been pleased with the commission." "I'll give you and order " began Sir Amyas. "What have you got about you, sir?" interrupted Karen.
I know what is due to the real quality, and I've put aboard all the toilette, and linen, and dresses as was bespoke for the last Mrs. Van Draagen, and there's a civil spoken wench aboard, what will wait on her for a consideration." "Nay, but mistress," said Loveday, whispering: "I know those that would give more than you will ever get from my Lady if they found her safe here."
She is a young lady of birth, a cousin of my Lady's own, as innocent as a babe, and there are two gentlemen, if not three, a dying for her." "I lay you anything not one of 'em is worth old Mr. Van Draagen, who turns his thousands every month.
Van Draagen ought to come down handsomely for such an extra fine sample; but in the meantime he accepted the rouleau of guineas that Loveday handed to him, the proceeds, as she told Mrs. Darke, of my Lady's winnings last night at loo. All was ready.
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