[What Will He Do With It Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]@TWC D-Link bookWhat Will He Do With It Complete CHAPTER VIII 6/12
She may become a part of your immortality.
Princes may gaze on the effigies of the innocent happy childhood, to which your colours lend imperishable glow.
They may ask who and what was this fair creature? Will you answer, 'One whom I found in tinsel, and so left, sure that she would die in rags!'-- Save her!" Lionel drew forth his purse, and poured its contents on the table.
Vance covered them with his broad hand, and swept them into his own pocket! At that sinister action Waife felt his heart sink into his shoes; but his face was as calm as a Roman's, only he resumed his pipe with a prolonged and testy whiff. "It is I who am to take the portrait, and it is I who will pay for it," said Vance.
"I understand that you have a pressing occasion for"-- "Three pounds!" muttered Sophy, sturdily, through the tears which her grandfather's pathos had drawn forth from her downcast eyes, "Three pounds--three--three." "You shall have them.
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