Most of us have two or
three."
"Don't you think it would be a pity if he were to refuse to go with us
tomorrow--were to prefer to stay here and gamble?"
"No fear of that: he has given me his word of honor."
"Still, I think it would be hardly safe to tempt him. If you go and tell
him that friend of his won such a lot of money, he will want to stop; and
if he does not stop, he will go away miserable. You know they began
betting with his money, though they went on with their own."
"Oh, did they? What was his own money?"
"How much was it, Zoe?"
"Fifty pounds."
"Well," said Vizard, "you must admit it is hard he should lose his own
money. And yet I own I am most anxious to get him away from this place.
Indeed, I have a project; I want him to rusticate a few months at our
place, while I set my lawyer to look into his affairs and see if his
estate cannot be cleared. I'll be bound the farms are underlet. What does
the Admirable Crichton know about such trifles?"
Fanny looked at Zoe, whose color was rising high at all this. "Well!"
said she, "when you gentlemen fall in love _with each other,_ you
certainly are faithful creatures.
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