25/45 I will not mortgage an acre for it." "And you will let your only son the heir of Sandal-Side, go to jail and disgrace for five hundred pounds. I never heard tell of such cruelty. Tell me how I am to find five hundred pounds. Eh? How can a woman tell ?" "Father, have I not got some money of my own ?" "You have the accrued interest on the thousand pounds your grandmother left you. |