Agnes Vol. 2 — page 138: what you’re looking at

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AUNLS; OR, BEAULY AND PLEASURE, 12h ee rare ae ‘sl I The ti tee aA ome ‘ a ee me 2, & e g 1s oe » ff a a the very utmost—his 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 inthe; We will describews succinctly as possible the Tuscan capital who was not the holder of bills and |‘ awfully perilous position in which Count Ramwe bonds bearing Ramorino’s name, and on which a rino found himself placed. All the numerous ruinous interest was accumulating. This amount | clerks and employés, agents and subordinates, 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 Police 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 ataved off for a period—patched up here, alle- grasp at the gaming-table. In the desperate hope viated there—with the hope of complete redemp. | iof 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 statesinau of a far more grave and serious nature staring bim | of the most scrupulous exactitude and precisiun in in the face,—a difficulty which could not be post. | all the affairs of his department: every one knew poned for even forty-eight hours. Hestood upon that punctually as the clock struck all dewaude the very verge of a preeipice, into which he must on the Treasury were certain to be paid: Count toovitathy plunge headlong unless the speediest Ramorino cuuld not therefore throw upon thg No. 69.—Aamzs. Vox. 1L COMMUC NOOKS (CO