3. That Hope got more and more uneasy about the L20,000, and observed to
Bartley that they must be robbing _somebody_ of it without the excuse
they once had. He, for his part, would work to disgorge his share.
Bartley replied that the money would have gone to a convent if he had not
saved it from so vile a fate. This said the astute Bartley because one
day Hope, who had his opinions on everything, inveighed against a
convent, and said no private prisons ought to exist in a free country. So
Bartley's ingenious statement stunned Hope for a minute, but did not
satisfy his conscience.
4. Hope went to London for a week, and Mary spent four days with her
husband at a hotel near the lake; but not the one held by Mrs. Easton's
sister. This change was by advice of Mrs. Easton. On this occasion Mary
played the woman. She requested Walter to get her some orange blossoms,
and she borrowed a diamond bracelet of Julia, and sat down to dinner with
her husband in evening dress, and dazzled him with her lovely arms and
bust, and her diamond bracelet and eyes that outshone it.
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