10/14 And Phebe did not guess them. "Mr.Clifford has almost given it up. He is an unforgiving man, an awful man." "No, no; he is a just man," said old Marlowe; "he wants nothing but his own again, like me, and that a scoundrel should not get off scot free. I want my money back; it's not money merely, but my years, and my brain, and my love for thee, and my power to work: that's what he has robbed me of. Let me have my money back, and I'll forgive him." "Poor father!" said Phebe aloud, with a little sob. |