Agnes: A Tale of the Streets — page 182: what you’re looking at

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| AGNLS; OR, BEAUIY AND PLEASURK, 124 Zz . MS Pt8, 92: oe 3 - f° « 7 ot the very utmost—nis bankers had sent him an in- succour arrived. But whence was such assistancy timation that his account was most unsatisfactory to come, unless it were the work of a miracle ? —and there was scarcely a money-lender in the Wo will describets succinctly as possible the Tuscan capital who was not the holder of billsand ‘awfully perilous position in which Count Ramve bonds bearing Ramorino’s name, and on which a rino found himself placed. All the numerous ruinous interest was accumulating. This amount | clerks and employds, agents and subordiuates, in of difficultica would have been sufficient to goad| the department of the police, received their Ramorino’s mind almost to madness: but yet it salaries monthly. Every four weeks the Minister was not the full sum of the troubles which were of Polico drew the requisite amount from the ow harassing, torturing, and indeed agonizing Minister of Finance. Count Ramorino had juat him. Those were difficulties whivh might be drawnthis amount; and it had vanished from his staved off for a period-——patched up bere, alle- grasp at the gaming-table, In the desperate hope viated there—with the hope of complete redemp- | of retrieving his shattered fortunes, ho had tion ultimately through the turning-up of some, plunged himself further down in the vortex of lucky chance. But there was an embarrassment ruin, The Minister of Finance was a statesman of a far more grave and serious nature staring him | of the most scrupulous exactitude and precisiun in in the face,—a difficulty which could not be poat- | all the affaira of his department: every one kac'w poned for even forty-eight hours. Hestood upon that punctually as the clock struck all dowauds the very verge of a preeipice, into which he must on the Treasury were certain to be paid : Count taovitatty plunge headlong uniess the apeediest Ramorino could not therefore throw upon thg comiclooolks