My Lady's Money. Уилки Коллинз

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PERSONS OF THE STORY

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      Women:

      Lady Lydiard (Widow of Lord Lydiard)

      Isabel Miller (her Adopted Daughter)

      Miss Pink (of South Morden)

      The Hon. Mrs. Drumblade (Sister to the Hon. A. Hardyman)

      Men

      The Hon. Alfred Hardyman (of the Stud Farm)

      Mr. Felix Sweetsir (Lady Lydiard’s Nephew)

      Robert Moody (Lady Lydiard’s Steward)

      Mr. Troy (Lady Lydiard’s Lawyer)

      Old Sharon (in the Byways of Legal Bohemia)

      Animal

      Tommie (Lady Lydiard’s Dog)

PART THE FIRST.

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THE DISAPPEARANCE.

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CHAPTER I.

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      OLD Lady Lydiard sat meditating by the fireside, with three letters lying open on her lap.

      Time had discolored the paper, and had turned the ink to a brownish hue. The letters were all addressed to the same person—“THE RT. HON. LORD LYDIARD”—and were all signed in the same way—“Your affectionate cousin, James Tollmidge.” Judged by these specimens of his correspondence, Mr. Tollmidge must have possessed one great merit as a letter-writer—the merit of brevity. He will weary nobody’s patience, if he is allowed to have a hearing. Let him, therefore, be permitted, in his own high-flown way, to speak for himself.

      First Letter.—“My statement, as your Lordship requests, shall be short and to the point. I was doing СКАЧАТЬ