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Sandra Belloni

CHAPTER V
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They make me so happy.
When I leave them--then!" Emilia sighed.
"And zen ?" quoth Mr.Pericles.
"Then, while my money lasts, I shall stay in the country." "How much money ?" "How much money have I ?" Emilia frankly and accurately summed up the condition of her treasury.

"Four pounds and nineteen shillings." "Hom! it is spent, and you go to your father again ?" "Yes." "To ze old Belloni ?" "My father." "No!" cried Mr.Pericles, upon Emilia's melancholy utterance.

He bent to her ear and rapidly spoke, in an undertone, what seemed to be a vivid sketch of a new course of fortune for her.

Emilia gave one joyful outcry; and now Wilfrid retreated, questioning within himself whether he should have remained so long.

But, as he argued, if he was convinced that the rascally Greek fellow meant mischief to her, was he not bound to employ every stratagem to be her safeguard?
The influence of Mr.
Pericles already exercised over her was immense and mysterious.


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