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she dried her eyes quickly — " money, my dear " — and
she smiled with a bewildered shrug—"some debts at
Cambridge — no fault of his — but these were a few old
things that mounted up with interest, my dear — you un-
derstand — and law costs — and indeed, dear miss — well,
Rachel — I forgot—I sometimes thought we must be
quite ruined."
"Oh, Dolly, dear," said Rachel, very pale, "I feared
it. I thought you might be troubled about money, and,
to say truth, it was partly to try your friendship with a
question on that very point that I came here, and in the
hope that maybe you might allow me to be of some use."
"How wonderfully good you are! How friends are
raised up!" and with a smile that shone like an April
Bun through her tears, she stood on tiptoe, and kissed the
tall young lady.
"You know, dear, before he went, Mark promised to
lend dear Willie a large sum of money. Well he went
away in such a hurry, that he never thought of it; and
he keeps, you know, wandering about on the Continent,
and never gives his address; so he can't, you sec, be writ-
ten to; and the delay — but, Rachel, darling, are you
ill?"
She rang the bell, and opened the window, and got
some water.
"My darling, you walked too fast here. You were
very near fainting."
"No, dear — nothing — I am quite well now — go on."
But she did not go on immediately, for Rachel Was
trembling in a kind of shivering fit, which did not pass
away till after poor Dolly, who had no other stimulant at
command, made her drink a cup of very hot milk.
Nearly ten minutes passed before the talk was renewed.
"Well, now, what do you think — that good man, Mr.