17/24 It may be the corner-stone of the vast business which I shall re-construct. I will use it, Laura, and I will pay something--four, shall we say, or even four and a-half--and you may have it back on any day. And I will give security--the security of my--well, of my word of honour." "It is quite impossible, papa," his daughter answered coldly. Hector asked me to be his banker. |