Trip 9264 of 10085 collection book58
This account the good lady took for an evasion and upon that supposition has againbook75 written to him in such a provoking style thatbook17 although the letter arrived but half an hour ago he is determined to despatch a courier before morning with the mischievous ring for which in compliance with the impetuosity of his temper I have taken the freedom to disturb you at this unseasonable hour. After begging pardon for having intruded upon your family at these hours I must now tell you that my cousin Count Melvil was some time ago so much misrepresented to his mother by certain malicious informers who delight in sowing discord in private families that she actually believed her son an extravagant spendthrift who had not only consumed his remittances in the most riotous scenes of disorder but also indulged a pernicious appetite for gaming to such a degree that he had lost all his clothes and jewels at play.... read all
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