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Listening in silence until she had done, Amelius started to his feet, and opening the cabinet, took from it Mrs. Farnaby's letter. He read the letter, keeping his back towards Phoebe waited a moment thinking and suddenly turned on the woman with a look that made her shrink in her chair. "You wretch!" he said; "you detestable wretch!"
With a stinking coal fire, with the gas lit and the curtains drawn at half-past eleven in the forenoon, I feel that I am in my own country again at last. Patience, my friend patience! I am coming to the ladies. Entering Mr. Farnaby's private residence on the appointed day, I became acquainted with one more of the innumerable insincerities of modern English life.
I've seen a deal of the world, Phoebe; and my experience tells me there's something about that debt of Farnaby's which he doesn't want to have known. Why shouldn't we screw a few five-pound notes for ourselves out of the rich miser's fears?" Phoebe was cautious. "It's against the law ain't it?" she said. "Trust me to keep clear of the law," Jervy answered.
How do we know what he might have done in his young days, or how he might have humbugged a feeble woman. Wait till our friend there at the fire has warmed her old bones with some hot grog and I'll find out something more about Farnaby's debt." "Why, dear? What is it to you?" Jervy reflected for a moment, and decided that the time had come to speak more plainly.
An old family is an old family; it's sad to see their hearths and homes sold to wealthy manufacturers who don't know who their own grandfathers were. Would you allow me to ask what is the family motto of the Goldenhearts?" Shall I own the truth? The bottles circulated freely at Mr. Farnaby's table I began to wonder whether he was quite sober.
Farnaby's likeness enclosed. How I am to describe her in words, I really don't know. My dear fellow, she almost frightened me. I never before saw such a woman; I never expect to see such a woman again. There was nothing in her figure, or in her way of moving, that produced this impression on me she is little and fat, and walks with a firm, heavy step, like the step of a man.
He turned for relief to the consideration of Mr. Farnaby's strange conduct, under the domestic disaster which had befallen him. Recalling what he had observed for himself, and what he had heard from Mrs.
His bankruptcy is only a question of time he will drop back to the dregs; and, quite possibly, make his appearance to answer a criminal charge in a court of law. I hear that Melton, whose credit has held up the bank lately, is off to see his friend in Paris. They say Farnaby's niece is a handsome girl, and Melton is sweet on her. Awkward for Melton." Rufus listened attentively.
Whatever Amelius might think of the situation in which he now found himself, the one thing that he could honourably do was to say nothing, and submit to it. He remained quietly by the fire. Farnaby's room. The servant opened the house-door. Regina's voice was heard in the hall. "Has my aunt come in?" "No, miss." "Have you heard nothing of her?" "Nothing, miss." "Has Mr. Goldenheart been here?"
"You remember that she asked me to tell her Farnaby's address?" "Oh yes! And she wanted to know if he had ever gone by the name of Morgan. Ridiculous wasn't it?" "I'm not so sure of that, my dear. She told me, in so many words, that Farnaby owed her money. He didn't make his fortune all at once, I suppose.
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