"I can't imagine the creature doing a good action without a strong motive." "I've heard say she's generous and is always ready to put her hand in her pocket to help anybody in distress." "Very likely.

It's easy to be generous with money that comes so lightly.
Every guinea she spends is tainted," exclaimed Lavinia passionately.
"And so you accepted her help ?" "Not in money.

She found me grievously ill at Dr.Mountchance's on London Bridge.

Mountchance is a quack and a charlatan, and she had me carried to her own lodgings else I must have died.

I'd scarce recovered from my wound when I was arrested at Rofflash's instigation and thrown into Newgate." "I suppose she did right and you, too, Mr.Vane," rejoined Lavinia with a toss of her head.