14/14 Ask Martingale; he was in Spain, aide-de-camp to General Blazes." "He was a very kind old man, Mr.Sedley," Rebecca said; "I'm really sorry he's gone wrong." "O stockbrokers--bankrupts--used to it, you know," Rawdon replied, cutting a fly off the horse's ear. "Five-and-twenty guineas was monstrously dear for that little piano. We chose it at Broadwood's for Amelia, when she came from school. It only cost five-and-thirty then." "What-d'-ye-call'em--'Osborne,' will cry off now, I suppose, since the family is smashed. How cut up your pretty little friend will be; hey, Becky ?" "I daresay she'll recover it," Becky said with a smile--and they drove on and talked about something else.. |