This at once aroused my aunt's suspicions; and instead of lending the money, she wrote off to Mr.
Smithers instantly to come up to her, desired me to give her up the 3,000_l_.

scrip shares that I possessed, called me an atrocious cheat and heartless swindler, and vowed I had been the cause of her ruin.
How was Mr.Brough to get the money?
I will tell you.

Being in his room one day, old Gates the Fulham porter came and brought him from Mr.Balls, the pawnbroker, a sum of 1,200_l_.

Missus told him, he said, to carry the plate to Mr.Balls; and having paid the money, old Gates fumbled a great deal in his pockets, and at last pulled out a 5_l_.

note, which he said his daughter Jane had just sent him from service, and begged Mr.B.
would let him have another share in the Company.