sharper-if

Updated: June 9, 2025

"Certainly. My dear Darrell, if in your secret heart there was something so galling in the thought that the man who had married your daughter, though without your consent, was not merely the commonplace adventurer whom the world supposed, but the son of that poor dear I mean that rascal who was transported, Jasper, too, himself a cheat and a sharper-if this galled you so, that you have concealed the true facts from myself, your oldest friend, till this day if it has cost you even now so sharp a pang to divulge the true name of that Mr.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07