11/37 It would have been nothing to him." "Hugh didn't let you keep your own fortune." "But the money which will be nothing to Lord Ongar was a good deal to Hugh. You're going to have sixty thousand a year, while we have to do with seven or eight. Besides, I hadn't been out in London, and it wasn't likely I should owe much in Nice. He did ask me, and there was something." "What am I to do, Hermy ?" "Write and ask Lord Ongar to let you have what you want out of your own money. Write to-day, so that he may get your letter before he comes." "Oh, dear! oh, dear! I never wrote a word to him yet, and to begin with asking him for money!" "I don't think he can be angry with you for that." "I shouldn't know what to say. |