"Oh, I remember;--Amelia's
lover."
"Do you mean to say you forgot Mr. Juniper? I never shall forget him.
What a horrid man he is!"
"I never saw Mr. Juniper in my life. What did he want of you?"
"He says you have ruined him utterly. He came here about two o'clock,
and found me at work in the garden. He made his way in through the open
gate, and would not be sent back though one of the girls told him that
there was nobody at home. He had seen me, and I could not turn him out,
of course."
"What did he say to you? Was he impudent?"
"He did not insult me, if you mean that; but he was impudent in not
going away, and I could not get rid of him for an hour. He says that you
have doubly ruined him."
"As how?"
"You would not let Amelia have the fortune that you promised her; and I
think his object now was to get the fortune without the girl. And he
said, also, that he had lent five hundred pounds to your Captain
Scarborough."
"He is not my Captain Scarborough."
"And that when you were settling the captain's debts his was the only
one you would not pay in full."
"He is a rogue,--an arrant rogue!"
"But he says that he's got the captain's name to the five hundred
pounds; and he means to get it some of these days, now that the captain
and his father are friends again.
Pages:
729
730
731
732
733
734
735
736
737
738
739
740
741
742
743
744
745
746
747
748
749
750
751
752
753