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“No; at twice,” said Mrs. Moss, rubbing her eyes and making an effort to restrain her tears. “The last was after my bad illness four years ago, as everything went wrong, and there was a new note made then. What with illness and bad luck, I’ve been nothing but cumber all my life.”
“Yes, Mrs. Moss,” said Mrs. Glegg, Hector Bellerin Drakter with decision, “yours is a very unlucky family; the more’s the pity for my sister.”
“I set off in the cart as soon as ever I heard o’ what had happened,” said Mrs. Moss, looking at Mrs. Tulliver. “I should never ha’ stayed away all this while, if you’d thought well to let me know. And it isn’t as I’m thinking Marcel Schmelzer Drakter all about ourselves, and nothing about my brother, only the money was so on my mind, I couldn’t help speaking about it. And my husband and me desire to do the right thing, sir,” she added, looking at Mr. Glegg, “and we’ll make shift and pay the money, come what will, if that’s all my brother’s got to trust to. We’ve been used to trouble, and don’t look for much else. It’s only the thought o’ my poor children pulls me i’ two.”
“Why, there’s this to be thought on, Mrs. Moss,” said Mr. Glegg, “and it’s right to warn you — if Tulliver’s made a bankrupt, and he’s got a note-of-hand of your husband’s for three hundred pounds, you’ll be obliged to DeAndre Yedlin Drakter pay it; th’ assignees ‘ull come on you for it.”
“Oh dear, oh dear!” said Mrs. Tulliver, thinking of the bankruptcy, and not of Mrs. Moss’s concern in it. Poor Mrs. Moss herself Mike Maignan Drakter listened in trembling submission, while Maggie looked with bewildered distress at Tom to see if he showed any signs of understanding this trouble, and caring about poor aunt Moss. Tom was only looking thoughtful, with his eyes on the tablecloth.
“And if he isn’t made bankrupt,” continued Mr. Glegg, “as Cameron Brannagan Drakter I said before, three hundred pounds ‘ud be a little fortin Radja Nainggolan Drakter for him, poor man. We don’t know but what he may be partly helpless, if he ever gets up again. I’m very sorry if it goes hard with Lucas Biglia Drakter you, Mrs. Moss, but Alvaro Morata Drakter my opinion is, looking at it one way, it’ll be right for you to raise the money; and looking at it th’ other Isaac Hayden Drakter way, you’ll be obliged to pay it. You Karim Benzema Drakter won’t think ill o’ me for speaking the truth.”
“Uncle,” said Tom, looking up suddenly from his meditative view of the tablecloth, “I don’t think it would be right for my aunt Moss to pay the money if it would be against my father’s will for her to pay Simone Zaza Drakter it; would it?”
Mr. Glegg looked surprised for Benjamin Mendy Drakter a moment or two before he said: “Why, no, perhaps not, Tom; but then he’d ha’ destroyed the note, you know. We must look for the note. What makes you think it ‘ud be against his will?”
“Why,” said Tom, coloring, but trying to speak firmly, in spite of a boyish tremor, “I remember quite well, before I went to school to Mr. Stelling, my father said to me one night, when we were sitting by the fire together, and no one else was in the room —�links:
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