A Fair Fraud — page 108: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VII ‘UNLEss you can bring him to the scratch to-morrow, said Mrs Lane, afas Bradford, to her daughter, ‘we shall have to bolt, and even then it will be running it very fine, and we shall be lucky 1f we are able to avert a catastrophe in any case.’ ‘Has anything fresh happened, then ?’ asked Hester, who was gazing dreamily into her bedroom fire. She spoke a little wearily, for it was late, and she was tired; but Mrs Lane had come into her room ostensibly to unfasten her dress, Miss Weeds having been as usual sent away, but really, as Hester well knew, she came to talk to her about disagreeable things. She could not very well turn her mother out. ‘Yes, something fresh has cropped up—a most unpleasant complication. What happened this morning was bad enough, but I trust I have staved off that danger for the present ; but this evening, what do you imagine has occurred ?’ G COMNMUC JOO <S (GO) uu