welsher's

Updated: May 14, 2025

Baroni paused a moment. Money he loved with an adoration that excluded every other passion; that blank check, that limitless carte blanche, that vast exchequer from which to draw! it was a sore temptation. He thought wistfully of the welsher's peremptory forbiddance of all compromise of the welsher's inexorable command to "wring the fine-feathered bird," lose whatever might be lost by it.

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