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The Way We Live Now

CHAPTER X - MR FISKER'S SUCCESS
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But Mr Fisker won nearly all that was lost.

He was to start for Liverpool by train at 8.30 a.m., and at 6 a.m., he counted up his bits of paper and found himself the winner of about L600.

'I think that most of them came from you, Sir Felix,' he said,--handing the bundle across the table.
'I dare say they did, but they are all good against these other fellows.' Then Fisker, with most perfect good humour, extracted one from the mass which indicated Dolly Longestaffe's indebtedness to the amount of L50.

'That's Longestaffe,' said Felix, 'and I'll change that of course.' Then out of his pocket-book he extracted other minute documents bearing that M.G.which was so little esteemed among them,-- and so made up the sum.

'You seem to have L150 from Grasslough, L145 from Nidderdale, and L322 10s from Grendall,' said the baronet.


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