[St. Martin’s Summer by Rafael Sabatini]@TWC D-Link bookSt. Martin’s Summer CHAPTER XII 18/26
But now that you know--" Arsenio shrugged his shoulders. "Now that I know, I, had best have a care of my soul and look about me for other employment." "Alas!" sighed Arsenio; "it is none so easy to find." Garnache looked at him.
Garnache began to have in his luck a still greater faith than hitherto.
He glanced stealthily around; then he sat down again, so that his mouth was close to Arsenio's ear. "The pay is beggarly here, yet I have refused a fortune offered me by another that I might remain loyal to my masters at Condillac.
But this thing that you tell me alters everything.
By the Host! yes." "A fortune ?" sneered Arsenio. "Aye, a fortune--at least, fifty pistoles.
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