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Updated: June 19, 2025
This was the mood in which I went to sleep, but when I awoke in the morning, almost before the dawn, the strength of my resolution ebbed away. I listened to the rumble of the rubber-bound wheels of the carriages and motor-cars that passed under my window and, remembering that I had not a friend in London, I felt small and helpless. What could I do alone? Where could I turn for assistance?
On the box sat a coachman and footman, in high hats and immense fur collars; in the carriage, finished in sapphire damask, a man of not large stature, slender, with pale face, ruddy side-whiskers, and with the glitter of a golden spark in the glasses which covered his eyes. Slowly, with dignity, the carriage with muffled sound of rubber-bound wheels halted before the bank entrance.
She slid her hand finally into one of the voluminous folds of her dress, withdrawing and placing a rubber-bound roll into his hands. "There, honey. Go to sleep now like a king." He fingered it, finally sitting up to count, leaning forward to the ring of lamplight. "Six hundred bucks! Six hundred! Wow oh, wow! If Sid could only see me now!" "He can, honey he can. Go to sleep. 'Sh-h-h-h!"
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