A Fair Fraud — page 231: what you’re looking at

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220 A Fair Fraud friends who have been good to us should remain for ever in ignorance of our relationship to him.’ ‘What madness! What Quixotic folly! Why, its a positive mercy that he is dead. And if I am glad—yes, géad, I tell you—that your disreputable father has been killed, surely you, who have never seen him since you were a little child of eight, cannot possibly pretend to be sorry ?’ ‘Hush, mother! Do not say such dreadful things! To be glad because a man is dead is a crime, and this man at least was the father of your child. And you are mistaken. I have seen him quite lately. I saw him only yesterday and I spoke to him. I had promised him some money.’ She now brought out her last argument, and described her interview with ~ her father in the woods. ‘You promised him money!’ cried Mrs Lane, sharply. ‘Where on earth were you going to get money for him, pray? When you refused Captain Drury, you cut off your only chance of ever getting any money from anybody !’ ‘It was precisely from Captain Drury that I expected to get the money. I had asked him to lend me two hundred pounds.’ Then Mrs Lane's rage and indignation knew no bounds. ‘Fool! fool!’ she cried, furiously, pacing up Eebool 4 (G' O)