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"I aht, at least, when I had borne to send the plate back and have

that ht

_that_ would suffice"

"I explained it to you at the time, dear That was only a security and

behind that Security there is a debt And that debt must be paid

within the next fewPlymdale will take our house and most of our furniture, we shall

be able to pay that debt, and some others too, and we shall be quit of

a place too expensive for us We ht take a smaller house: Trumbull,

I know, has a very decent one to let at thirty pounds a-year, and this

is ninety" Lydgate uttered this speech in the curt haue mind to imperative facts

Tears rolled silently down Rosaainst thee vase on the

mantel-piece It was a moment of more intense bitterness than she had

ever felt before At last she said, without hurry and with careful

emphasis--

"I never could have believed that you would like to act in that way"

"Like it?" burst out Lydgate, rising fro away fro Of course, I don't like it; it's the only thing I