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And Alban Morley, seemingly intent upon the sketch which his amiable niece-in-law submits to his critical taste ere she ventures to show it to Vance, is looking from under his brows towards the grove, out from which, towering over all its dark brethren, soars the old trysting beech-tree, and to himself he is saying: "Ten to one that the old House of Vipont now weather the CRISIS; and a thousand to one that I find at last my armchair at the hearth of my schoolfriend, Guy Darrell!"
But, dear me, one was young only once! Now, however, there would be a change." On the following morning the assistant called on an old schoolfriend, a registrar, to ask him to stand security for a loan. "You see, my dear fellow, when one is about to become a father, one has to consider how to meet increasing expenses."
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