[Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookDoctor Thorne CHAPTER IX 17/19
What's the expense? I suppose five or six pound apiece will do it; eh, Thorne ?" "Oh, yes; that will be liberal I should say.
But, Sir Roger, will you allow me to suggest what you ought to do? I don't know how far you may be joking--" "Joking!" shouted the baronet; "you tell a man he's dying and joking in the same breath.
You'll find I'm not joking." "Well I dare say not.
But if you have not full confidence in me--" "I have no confidence in you at all." "Then why not send to London? Expense is no object to you." "It is an object; a great object." "Nonsense! Send to London for Sir Omicron Pie: send for some man whom you will really trust when you see him. "There's not one of the lot I'd trust as soon as Fillgrave.
I've known Fillgrave all my life, and I trust him.
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