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"They have been returned about an hour, and I ive you

Edward's account of his interview Maddox has quite dropped his ht into contact with

Edward again, and, now it is all up with hi the whole web, alenuity His earlier history was as he used to represent it

to Edward He was a respectable ironer's son, with a taste for art;

he was not allowed to indulge it, and then ca

away from home He studied at the Academy for a few years, but wanted

application, and fancied he had begun too late, tried s and

spent a shifty life, but never was consciously dishonest till after he

had fallen in with Edward; and the large sums left uninquired for in his

hands beca His own

difficulties drove hirand stroke,

he had been in a course of using the su poor Maria open to the adave her

beauty, put it into his head to make a tool of her; and this was not the

first ti No wonder

there was such a confusion in the accounts as told so ainst

Edward He told the particulars, Edward says, with the strangest mixture

of remorse and exultation At last came the journey to Bohemia, and his

frauds became the more easy, until he saw there must be a bankruptcy,

andthe money abroad in his own

name, so that he would have been ready to escape if Edward had coain He never expected but that Edould have returned, and

finding the affairs hopeless, did this deed in order to have a resource

As to regret, he seeone

farther than he anticipated; but 'I could not let hiet into that

subject,' Edward said, and he soon came back to his a of all concerned at ho

Edward for the facilities his absence had given hi Maria lest she should betray hi cast off; and

they lived in such style at Gerain to England, where he could better play the

lecturer, and the artist in search of subscriptions Edward could not

help sood stories, rather as 'the lord' may

have 'commended the wisdom of his unjust steward' Well, here he came,

and, as he said, he really could hardly have helped himself; he had

only to stand still and let poor Rachel deceive herself, and the whole

concern was in ato be

able to get the main sum into his hands, as he obtained more confidence

from Rachel, and the woodcuts were an over-bold stroke for the purpose;