[Mr. Scarborough’s Family by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookMr. Scarborough’s Family CHAPTER XVII 20/22
When I've been so troubled as that I must have a cup of tea." Mr.Grey was often troubled, and as a consequence Dolly was called up for consultations in the middle of the night. At about one o'clock there came the well-known knock at Dolly's door and the usual invitation.
Would she come into her father's room for a few minutes? Then her father trotted back to his bed, and Dolly, of course, followed him as soon as she had clothed herself decently. "Why didn't you tell me ?" "I thought I had made up my mind not to go; or I thought rather that I should be able to make up my mind not to go.
But it is possible that down there I may have some effect for good." "What does he want of you ?" "There is a long question about raising money with which Augustus desires to buy the silence of the creditors." "Could he get the money ?" asked Dolly. "Yes, I think he could.
The property at present is altogether unembarrassed.
To give Mr.Scarborough his due, he has never put his name to a scrap of paper; nor has he had occasion to do so.
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