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A Hungarian Nabob

CHAPTER VIII
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It would be better if you came and sat down by me and heard me out.

Look now! I want Abellino to wait in vain for the hour of my death.

I want my estates not to go to him, but to another.

Do you understand ?" "Of course! You would cut him off with a shilling." "Why, man, you understand nothing.

My estates are hereditary; I cannot leave them to whom I will--that depends on the law of succession, and the law of succession is eternal.


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