5/26 It was as though he had declared that the money-lenders had been too well instructed as to what tricks Mr.Scarborough could play with his property to risk a second venture. It was unreasonable that a man should live who had acted in such a way and who had been so cut about by the doctors. His father's demise had, in truth, been promised to him, and to all the world. It was an understood thing, in all circles which knew anything, that old Mr. It had been understood some time, and was understood at the present moment; and yet Mr.Scarborough went on living,--no doubt, as an invalid in the last stage of probable dissolution, but still with the full command of his intellect and mental powers for mischief. |