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"Why were you so ie a

loan"

"I could not possibly refuse, Mary"

"But you hold an acknowledgment of the debt and a proistrates; at Antwerp justice is

promptly and i man, in a plaintive voice; "ations; a complaint from me would be the cause

of irreparable ruin to hi

the ten thousand crowns He told ive e on Spain"

"But of whoe is so

mysterious"

"I will not tell his name Be not offended by my reserve; there is between

merchants a law of secrecy which honor forbids us to violate"

Mary appeared to respect this law; but she was evidently absorbed in

bitter reflections

Either the coiven hiht of her sorrow made him affect a confidence he

did not feel, for he said to her in a cheerful eer My debtor is a member of a house which equals any other in