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However there was no ti

The situation itself vanished in the financial crash as a building

vanishes in an earthquake--here one ht, prelieration perhaps; but that everything was over in just twenty-four

hours is an exact statement Fyne was able to tell me all about it; and

the phrase that would depict the nature of the change best is: an instant

and complete destitution I don't understand these matters very well,

but from Fyne's narrative it seemed as if the creditors or the

depositors, or the co

of an eye of everything de Barral possessed in the world, down to his

watch and chain, the money in his trousers' pocket, his spare suits of

clothes, and I suppose the ca! I believe he gave up the very wedding ring of his late wife

The gloomy Priory with its damp park and a couple of farms had been made

over to Mrs de Barral; but when she died (without ot that of course; but it was a mere

crumb in a Sahara of starvation, a drop in the thirsty ocean I dare say

that not a single soul in the world got the comfort of as much as a

recovered threepenny bit out of the estate Then, less than crurabbed, the lease of the big Brighton

house, the furniture therein, the carriage and pair, the girl's riding

horse, her costly trinkets; down to the heavily gold- too went: the arly assets