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My Lady’s Money

CHAPTER X
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The lawyer's brief refusal surprised and annoyed her.
"Why do you decline to assist me ?" she asked.
"Because," answered Mr.Troy, "my services are already engaged, in Miss Isabel's interest, by a client whom I have served for more than twenty years.

My client is--" Miss Pink anticipated the coming disclosure.

"You need not trouble yourself, sir, to mention your client's name," she said.
"My client," persisted Mr.Troy, "loves Miss Isabel dearly." "That is a matter of opinion," Miss Pink interposed.
"And believes in Miss Isabel's innocence," proceeded the irrepressible lawyer, "as firmly as you believe in it yourself." Miss Pink (being human) had a temper; and Mr.Troy had found his way to it.
"If Lady Lydiard believes in my niece's innocence," said Miss Pink, suddenly sitting bolt upright in her chair, "why has my niece been compelled, in justice to herself, to leave Lady Lydiard's house ?" "You will admit, madam," Mr.Troy answered cautiously, "that we are all of us liable, in this wicked world, to be the victims of appearances.
Your niece is a victim--an innocent victim.

She wisely withdraws from Lady Lydiard's house until appearances are proved to be false and her position is cleared up." Miss Pink had her reply ready.

"That is simply acknowledging, in other words, that my niece is suspected.


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