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"Mr Bellamy," said Allcraft, pale as death, and much excited; "you must not go until you have satisfied me on a point of life and death to both of us. Your conduct is a mystery. I cannot explain it. I know not what are the motives which actuate you. These are known to yourself. Let them be so. But I have a question to ask, and you must and shall answer it." "Must and shall, Mr Allcraft!
To-morrow I shall advertise publicly our determination, to honour his demands no more." "No no, no, Mr Allcraft," interposed old Brammel anxiously, taking every word for granted, "that must not be done I cannot allow it; for the poor boy's sake, that determination must not be made at present. I am sure he will reform at last.
Michael consented why should he not? to be the junior partner in the prosperous house of Allcraft senior and Son. Three months passed speedily, and Margaret still continued Abraham's tenant. She had lost the sting of her sorrow in the scenes of natural beauty by which she was surrounded.
He carried the note to Planner he thrust it into his face, and called him to account for his baseness and ingratitude. He could have struck his friend and partner to the earth, and trod him there to death, as he confronted and upbraided him. "Now, sir," roared Allcraft in his fury "What excuse what lie have you at your tongue's end to palliate this? What can justify this? Answer me!"
Allcraft cursed himself a thousand times for his folly in placing himself at the mercy of so unstable a character, and immediately became aware that there had never been any cogent reason for such a step, and that his danger would have been infinitely smaller had he never spoken to a human being on the subject. But it was useless to call himself, by turns, madman and fool, for his pains.
Have I not toiled in order to avoid the evil hour that has come upon us? Have I not given every thing have I not robbed another in order to prop up our house and keep its name from infamy?" "Be calm, be calm," interposed Mr Bellamy gently, remarking that Allcraft slightly raised his voice at the concluding words.
I have given my strength, my health, my peace of mind, to the house. I have drawn less than your clerk from its resources; but I have added to them, wrongfully, cruelly, and unpardonably, from means not my own, which, in common honesty, I ought never to have touched which" "Really, really, Mr Allcraft," said Bellamy, interrupting him, "you have told us every word of this before."
I have no means of paying them except by selling my estate, and therefore it must go. I hope you are satisfied?" Michael threw himself into a chair, and moved about in it, groaning. Mr Bellamy closed the door, and approached him. "This is a very unnecessary display of feeling, Mr Allcraft," said the imperturbable Bellamy; "very and can answer no good end.
You are my witness that it never would." Mr Bellamy rose with much formality from his seat. "Gentlemen," he said, "I cannot submit to dark and plebeian innuendoes. I have come here to-day, at great personal inconvenience, and I am prepared to listen respectfully to any thing which Mr Allcraft thinks it his duty to bring before us.
Before one year had passed over the respectable heads of our notable Banking-House, Allcraft was involved in a net of perplexity, from which it required all the acuteness of his apprehending mind to work out a mode of extrication.
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