[Evan Harrington by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookEvan Harrington CHAPTER XXVII 23/32
Had not Providence suggested Sir Abraham to her? killed him off at the right moment in aid of her? And now Providence had turned, and the assistance she had formerly received from that Power, and given thanks for so profusely, was the cause of her terror.
It was absolutely as if she had been borrowing from a Jew, and were called upon to pay fifty-fold interest. 'Evan!' she writes in a gasp to Harriet.
'We must pack up and depart. Abandon everything.
He has disgraced us all, and ruined himself. Impossible that we can stay for the pic-nic.
We are known, dear.
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