The String of Pearls; or, The Barber of Fleet Street — page 362: what you’re looking at

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Why, I withdrew it from him simply because I had certain secret information that his affairs were not in the best order ; and from a fear, grounded upon that information, that he might be tempted ‘to put his hand into our purse, “Well, well ; it matters not what were your reasons. Give me my half. It will be then out of your custody, and you will have no anxiety concerning it, while I can have no suspicions.” | ‘‘ In a moment———”’ i “You will?” | ‘Tf I had it here; but I have re-invested the whole, you see, and cannot get it at a moment's notice. 1 have moved it from the hands of Brown to those of | | | | | | hem | a | { | | TODD TAKES A JOURNEY TO THE TEMPLE, “Black ?” said Mrs Lovett. “Yes, Black.” | ‘Do you think me so—”’ green, she was going to say, but the accidental | CHAPTER LXXIX. i conjunction of the colours—brown, black, and green—suddenly struck her as ludicrous, and she altered it to foolish, ‘* Do you think me so foolish as for one moment to credit you ?”’ | “‘Hark you, Mrs. Lovett,’ pursued Todd, suddenly assuming quite a dif- | ‘deceiving you.” tions for—for—why do I hesitate about a word ?—guilty purposes that there ‘should be mutual distrust. I tell you again, that if I had not moved the money — from Brown, we should have lost it all.” | ferent tone. ‘ You have come here full of passion, because you thought I was — ‘¢ You are.’’ | | { + ae ‘* Allow me to proceed. It is, I believe, one of the penalties of all associa- “ | ‘* But why not come to me and get my signature ?” | ‘* There—really—was—not—time,” said Todd, dropping his words ont one — by one, with a steccato expression. | “That is too absurd.” | Todd shrugged his shoulders, as though he would have said—‘‘ Well, if you | will have it so, I cannot help it;’’ and then he said— | ‘‘] was inthe City. I heard the rumour of the instability of Brown. I flew into a shop. I wrote the order like a flash of lightning. 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