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This was good, but he aimed still higher; and, meeting Spennie's aunt, Lady Julia Coombe-Crombie, just at the moment when, financially, the Dreevers were at their lowest ebb, he had effected a very satisfactory deal by marrying her, thereby becoming, as one might say, Chairman of Dreever, L't'd.
He removed the three notes, and replaced the drawer. "Honor of the Dreevers!" he added, pocketing the money. Molly was horrified. "But, Lord Dreever!" she cried. "You can't! You mustn't! You can't be going, really, to take that money! It's stealing! It isn't yours! You must put it back." His lordship wagged a forefinger very solemnly at her. "That," he said, "is where you make error! Mine!
The old walls still stood, gray, menacing and unchanged, but they were the only link with the past. Lord Dreever's position was one of some embarrassment. At no point in their history had the Dreevers been what one might call a parsimonious family.
They were the only inhabitants of this new world. He looked back over his shoulder at the world they had left. The last of the Dreevers had rounded the clump of laurels, and was standing at the edge of the water, gazing perplexedly after the retreating canoe. "These poets put a thing very neatly sometimes," said Jimmy reflectively, as he dug the paddle into the water.
I like that!" "The point," said Jimmy, "is well taken. Noblesse oblige, and all that sort of thing. The blood of the Dreevers boils furiously at the idea. Listen! You can hear it sizzling." Lord Dreever moved a step nearer the door. "Stop!" cried Sir Thomas again. "Spencer!" "Well?" "Spencer, my boy, it occurs to me that perhaps I have not always treated you very well "
His lordship began to unburden his soul of certain facts relating to the family. "Have you ever met my Uncle Thomas?" he inquired. "You know Blunt's Stores? Well, he's Blunt. It's a company now, but he still runs it. He married my aunt. You'll meet him at Dreever." Jimmy said he would be delighted. "I bet you won't," said the last of the Dreevers, with candor. "He's a frightful man the limit.
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