A Fair Fraud — page 170: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 1509 widely different and most damaging con- struction. | After a few moments, Captain Drury spoke again; kindly, indeed, t-ut coldly enough. ‘Hester,’ he said, ‘I will give you this money for the sake of the love I once had for you ’—she winced and shrank at the past tense he used, as though he had struck her bodily— ‘but I want you to assure me that it will be of some permanent good to you, that it will enable you to rid yourself of this disgraceful connection; and shake off the slavery in which you are seemingly bound—prvmise me this at least?’ She looked at him with bewildered eyes. ‘I can make you no promise. How can I! possibly foretell the future?’ she said. ‘Then things will be no better for this money ?” ‘Oh, yes, indeed! it will avert the worst that I fear at present.’ ‘But it will not clear your path for the future,’ he persisted anxiously; ‘so that even if I give you this money—’ | ‘Do not say ‘‘give.” I swear to you that I will repay you! If you will give me time, every penny of it shall be paid back. I swear that I will repay you, she repeated earnestly once more. ‘T would far rather you swore to break off GOMMGIOO <S (GO) uu