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The Lady of the Shroud

BOOK II: VISSARION
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Indeed, I don't wish to be selfish, but your boy is lonely, and wants you.

And when you get here you will be an EMPRESS.
I don't altogether like doing so, lest I should offend a millionairess like you; but it may facilitate matters, and the way's of commerce are strict, though devious.

So I send you a cheque for 1,000 pounds for the little things: and a letter to the bank to honour your own cheques for any amount I have got.
I think, by the way, I should, if I were you, take or send out a few servants--not too many at first, only just enough to attend on our two selves.

You can arrange to send for any more you may want later.
Engage them, and arrange for their being paid--when they are in our service we must treat them well--and then they can be at our call as you find that we want them.

I think you should secure, say, fifty or a hundred--'tis an awfu' big place, Aunt Janet! And in the same way will you secure--and, of course, arrange for pay similarly--a hundred men, exclusive of any servants you think it well to have.


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