[A Prince of Sinners by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookA Prince of Sinners CHAPTER VII 14/16
Abandon this doling principle as soon as it is possible.
Give your serious attention to the social questions and imperfect laws which are at the back of all this distress." Brooks felt as though he had been awakened from a nightmare.
He never forgot that single moment of revelation on the part of the man who sat now smiling and debonair before his writing-table. "You are very kind indeed, Lord Arranmore," he said.
"I can assure you that the money will be most carefully used, and amongst my party, at any rate, we do really appreciate the necessity for going to the root of the matter." Arranmore's pen went scratching across the paper.
He tore out a cheque, and placing it in an envelope, handed it to Brooks. "I noticed," he remarked, thoughtfully, "that a good many people coming out of the factories hissed my carriage in Medchester last time I was there.
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