"
"I never did know about your business; nor does anybody, I believe. I
never could understand how, with your little property, you had these
'transactions,' as you call them, where you owed people and people owed
you so many thousands."
"It is not necessary for you to know. Women can't understand these
things."
"But women feel their effects, and it's a pity they could not learn
about what concerns them."
"Will it change your situation at once?" asked Mrs. Sandford of her
brother.
"I can't say; probably not at once; but without some aid, all I have
must go."
"What! the house?" exclaimed Marcia.
"Yes,--the house, Marcia, and the furniture. We shall be stripped."
"The deuse!" said Charles.
"Heaven help us! what shall we do?"
"I haven't had time to form any plan. I trust, indeed, that Heaven will
help us, as you rather lightly wished."
His face wore a touching look of faith and resignation, while at the
same time his hand rested with secret satisfaction upon his pocket-book.
The conversation was disagreeable to Charles, and he sauntered off to
the drawing-room.
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