[Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookPoor Miss Finch CHAPTER THE NINTH 8/19
A scale that has never been attempted yet.
Dear fellow! Shall I tell you what he said when he left me here? Noble words--I call them noble words.
'Oscar, I go to make our assumed name famous.
You shall be honorably known--you shall be illustrious, as the brother of Nugent Dubourg.' Do you think I could stand in the way of such a career as that? After what he has sacrificed for _me,_ could I let Such a Man stagnate here--for no better purpose than to keep me company? What does it matter about _my_ feeling lonely? Who am I? Oh, if you had seen how he bore with the horrible notoriety that followed us, after the trial! He was constantly stared at and pointed at, for _me._ Not a word of complaint escaped him.
He snapped his fingers at it.
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