The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 387: what you’re looking at

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310 REYNOLDS’ WORKS the ex-milliner no wiser on that point than he was previous to this second visit. But the mystery of the cash-box appeared to him to be now fully elucidated. Indeed, it was most natural for him to entertain the conviction that Anastatia had given Lord Rushbrook the key of the safe that he might help himself to its contents. _ “And thus,’ said Sir Frederick to himself, as he rode homeward, “‘ has my own wife enabled her own brother to rob me, — that wife who had already so grossly deceived me, that brother of hers whom I had already allowed to prey upon my purse. But there shall be an end of all this. Maledictions upon my folly in having married into one of the families of the aristocracy! ”’ Gomicbooks (E(0) m