[The Honorable Miss by L. T. Meade]@TWC D-Link bookThe Honorable Miss CHAPTER XII 15/19
Sometimes a pound a week, sometimes two pounds, sometimes five shillings." "And we have in the future ?" "Didn't I tell you, child? Four hundred a year.
One hundred pounds paid regularly every quarter.
Got without earning, got without toiling for. Ours whether we are sick or well; ours under any circumstances from this day forward; ours just for keeping a little bit of a secret to ourselves." "A secret which keeps me out of my own." "We have no money to prove it, child, at present.
In the meantime, this is a certainty.
Whenever we get our proofs complete we can cease to take this annuity." "This bribe, you mean.
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