20/71 But I assure you I have no present intention of doing so." Erskine's color deepened, and he moved away to the table where the albums lay. "I took many of them myself under great difficulties with regard to light--the only difficulty that money could not always remove. This is a view of my father's house--or rather one of his houses. It cost seventy-five thousand pounds." "Very handsome indeed," said Sir Charles, secretly disgusted at being invited to admire a photograph, such as house agents exhibit, of a vulgarly designed country house, merely because it had cost seventy-five thousand pounds. The figures were actually written beneath the picture. |