twenty-thousand-pounder

Updated: April 30, 2025

It's all arranged, I tell you: in a month, you are to be starved into becoming Tom Trippet's mistress; and his honour is to marry rich Miss Dripping, the twenty-thousand-pounder from London; and to purchase a regiment; and to get old Brock drummed out of Cutts's too," said the Corporal, under his breath.

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