[My Lady’s Money by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookMy Lady’s Money CHAPTER XXI 45/45
Dear and admirable woman! To you belongs the honor of saving the credit of the family; I can claim nothing but the inferior merit of having offered you the opportunity. "My IOU, it is needless to say, accompanies these lines.
Can I do anything for you abroad ?--F.
S." To this it is only necessary to add (first) that Moody was perfectly right in believing F.S.to be the person who informed Hardyman's father of Isabel's position when she left Lady Lydiard's house; and (secondly) that Felix did really forward Mr.Troy's narrative of the theft to the French police, altering nothing in it but the number of the lost bank-note. What is there left to write about? Nothing is left--but to say good-by (very sorrowfully on the writer's part) to the Persons of the Story. Good-by to Miss Pink--who will regret to her dying day that Isabel's answer to Hardyman was No. Good-by to Lady Lydiard--who differs with Miss Pink, and would have regretted it, to _her_ dying day, if the answer had been Yes. Good-by to Moody and Isabel--whose history has closed with the closing of the clergyman's book on their wedding-day. Good-by to Hardyman--who has sold his farm and his horses, and has begun a new life among the famous fast trotters of America. Good-by to Old Sharon--who, a martyr to his promise, brushed his hair and washed his face in honor of Moody's marriage; and catching a severe cold as the necessary consequence, declared, in the intervals of sneezing, that he would "never do it again." And last, not least, good-by to Tommie? No.
The writer gave Tommie his dinner not half an hour since, and is too fond of him to say good-by..
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