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My Lady's Money

My Lady's Money

Collins, Wilkie
Wilkie Collins
1stworld Library

Hardcover

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1421847787
ISBN13: 9781421847788
Publisher: 1St World Lib Inc
Published: Jun 15 2007
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
OLD Lady Lydiard sat meditating by the fireside, with three letters lying open on her lap. Time had discolored the paper, and had turned the ink to a brownish hue. The letters were all addressed to the same person-THE RT. HON. LORD LYDIARD-and were all signed in the same way-Your affectionate cousin, James Tollmidge. Judged by these specimens of his correspon-dence, Mr. Tollmidge must have possessed one great merit as a letter-writer-the merit of brevity. He will weary nobody's patience, if he is allowed to have a hearing. Let him, therefore, be permitted, in his own high-flown way, to speak for himself. First Letter.-My statement, as your Lordship requests, shall be short and to the point. I was doing very well as a portrait-painter in the country; and I had a wife and children to consider. Under the circumstances, if I had been left to decide for myself, I should certainly have waited until I had saved a little money before I ventured on the serious expense of taking a house and studio at the west end of London. Your Lordship, I positively declare, encouraged me to try the experiment without waiting.

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