[Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookCastle Richmond CHAPTER VI 15/24
You see the game's so much our own that there's nothing on hearth for us to fear." "I don't know that.
If we were all blown, where should we be--" "Why, she's your own--" "H-h-sh, Aby.
There's that confounded long-eared fellow at the keyhole, as sure as my name's Matthew; and if he hears you, the game's all up with a vengeance." "Lord bless you, what could he hear? Besides, talking as we are now, he wouldn't catch a word even if he were in the room itself.
And now I'll tell you what it is; do you go down yourself, and make your way into the hold gentleman's room.
Just send your own name in boldly. Nobody will know what that means, except himself." "I did that once before; and I never shall forget it." "Yes, you did it once before, and you have had a steady income to live on ever since; not such an income as you might have had. Not such an income as will do for you and me, now that we both know so well what a fine property we have under our thumbs.
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