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"My secretary has the figures, I believe," said the earl, slightly bored. "Well, we'll say thirty thousand in round figures. Now what hope have you of ever paying that sum off?" "None unless I er well, unless I should be fortunate enough to secure a rich wife." "Precisely; that is exactly what I thought," rejoined Terwilliger. "Marriage is your only asset, and as yet that is hardly negotiable.
"The lady is certainly worthy of any man's admiration. She is refined, cultivated, beautiful, and " "Ahem!" said Terwilliger. "May I ask, my dear Earl, to whom you refer?" "To Ariadne, of course. I thought your course somewhat unusual, but we do not pretend to comprehend you Americans over here. Your proposition is that I shall marry Ariadne?"
Two minutes later Terwilliger and the earl appeared in the drawing-room, the former looking haggard and worn, his eyes feverishly bright, and his manner betraying the presence of disturbing elements in his nerve centres; the latter smiling more affably than was consistent with his title, and jingling a number of gold coins in his pocket, which his intimate friend and old college chum, Lord Dufferton, on the other side of the room, marvelled at greatly, for he knew well that upon the earl's arrival at Bangletop Hall an hour before his pockets were as empty as a flunky's head.
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