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Waverley

CHAPTER LXII
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He knows your story; you will dine together at Huntingdon; and perhaps your wise heads may hit upon some plan for removing or diminishing the danger of your further progress northward.

And now' (taking out a morocco case), 'let me put you in funds for the campaign.' 'I am ashamed, my dear Colonel,--' 'Nay,' said Colonel Talbot, 'you should command my purse in any event; but this money is your own.

Your father, considering the chance of your being attainted, left me his trustee for your advantage.

So that you are worth above L15,000, besides Brerewood Lodge--a very independent person, I promise you.

There are bills here for L200; any larger sum you may have, or credit abroad, as soon as your motions require it.' The first use which occurred to Waverley of his newly-acquired wealth, was to write to honest Farmer Jopson, requesting his acceptance of a silver tankard on the part of his friend Williams, who had not forgotten the night of the eighteenth December last.


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