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I wonder how long an interval there was between the two; it would be a pretty calculation for a post-obit. Wodehouse seems to have brought his ancestor down at the first shot almost; but then there's no entail in his case, and the old fellow may have made a will. I beg your pardon; you don't like this sort of talk. I forgot you were a clergyman. I rather like this town of yours, do you know.
"Afraid!" said Randal, forced into speech, and with a hollow laugh "afraid? I? What of? I was only wondering what Lord L'Estrange could mean." "I will dispel that wonder at once. Mr. Hazeldean, your son displeased you first by his proposals of marriage to the Marchesa di Negra against your consent; secondly, by a post-obit bond granted to Baron Levy. Did you understand from Mr.
"Yes," cried Randal, giving way to a joy that rarely lighted up his close and secret countenance, "yes, he does not write from Hazeldean, not there when my letter arrived, in London, could not rest at the Hall, the place reminded him too much of Frank; went again to town, on the receipt of my first letter concerning the rupture of the marriage, to see after his son, and take up some money to pay off his post-obit.
"But will you let him have the money to pay these creditors?" "That is what I want to speak about. If I can see the list of the sums to be paid, and if you can assure yourself that by paying them I shall get back all the post-obit bonds which Mountjoy has given, and that the money can be at once raised upon a joint mortgage, to be executed by me and Augustus, I will do it.
How I wish I had known you earlier so few men of the world are like you. Even Randal Leslie, who is so faultless in most things, and never gets into a scrape himself, called my own scruples foolish. However " "Stay Randal Leslie! What! He advised you to borrow on a post-obit, and probably shared the loan with you?" "Oh, no; not a shilling." "Tell me all about it, Frank.
RANDAL. "No, no, Levy must be wrong." BARON. "My dear Leslie, a man of Mr. Hazeldean's time of life cannot have your romantic boyish notions. He must allow that Frank has acted in this like a lad of sense very good head for business has my young friend Frank! And the best thing Mr. Hazeldean can do is quietly to buy up the post-obit, and thus he will place his son henceforth in his power."
Frank did not listen; he could only listen to his love, to his heart beating loud with hope and with fear. Levy sat down before the table, and drew up a long list of figures in a very neat hand, a list of figures on two accounts, which the post-obit on the Casino was destined to efface. After a lapse of time, which to Frank seemed interminable, the count re-appeared.
Helpless beyond measure in all the duties of practical statesmanship, its members or their dependants have given proof of remarkable energy in the single department of peculation; and there, not content with the slow methods of the old-fashioned defaulter, who helped himself only to what there was, they have contrived to steal what there was going to be, and have peculated in advance by a kind of official post-obit.
Far from seeking revenge, the worst defaulter I ever had dealings with cannot deny that I am always willing to accept a good post-obit. I say again, I am daily brought in contact with all ranks of society, from the poverty-stricken patentee to the peer; and I am no more surprised at receiving an application from a duchess than from a pet opera-dancer.
But stay, take my advice, don't go to him; you see it was not only the marriage that has offended the squire, but some pecuniary transactions, an unfortunate post-obit bond on the Casino property. Frank ought to be left to his own repentant reflections.
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