[Arthur Mervyn by Charles Brockden Brown]@TWC D-Link bookArthur Mervyn CHAPTER IV 26/38
To him thirty thousand are nothing." "But will he not suspect you of some hand in it ?" "How can he? Will I not appear to lose as well as himself? Tom is my brother, but who can be supposed to answer for a brother's integrity? but he cannot suspect either of us.
Nothing less than a miracle can bring our plot to light.
Besides, this man is not what he ought to be. He will, some time or other, come out to be a grand impostor.
He makes money by other arts than bargain and sale.
He has found his way, by some means, to the Portuguese treasury." Here the conversation took a new direction, and, after some time, the silence of sleep ensued. Who, thought I, is this nabob who counts his dollars by half-millions, and on whom it seems as if some fraud was intended to be practised? Amidst their wariness and subtlety, how little are they aware that their conversation has been overheard! By means as inscrutable as those which conducted me hither, I may hereafter be enabled to profit by this detection of a plot.
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