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Chapter 1 A Strange Visitor
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“A penny for your thoughts, Dad,” cried Lillian, suppressing a school-girl desire to throw one of the nuts on her plate at her father and rouse him from his brown study.
Sir Charles Moon looked up with a start, and drew his bushy grey eye-brows together. “Some people would give more than that to know them, my dear.”
“What sort of people?” asked the young man who sat beside Lillian, industriously1 cracking filberts for her consumption.
“Dangerous people,” replied Sir Charles grimly, “very dangerous, Dan.”
Mrs. Bolstreath, fat, fair, and fifty, Lillian’s paid companion and chaperon, leaned back complacently2. She had enjoyed an excellent dinner: she was beautifully dressed: and shortly she would witness the newest musical comedy; three very good reasons for her amiable3 expression. “All people are dangerous to millionaires,” she remarked, pointing the compliment at her employer, ‘since all people enjoy life with wealth, and wish to get the millionaire’s money honestly or dishonestly.”
“The people you mention have failed to get mine, Mrs. Bolstreath,” was the millionaire’s dry response.
“Of course I speak generally and not of any particular person, Sir Charles.”
“I am aware of it,” he answered, nodding; and showed a tendency to relapse into his meditation4, but that his daughter raised her price for confession5.
“A sixpence for your thoughts, Dad, a shilling — ten shillings — then one pound, you insatiable person.”
“My kingdom for an explicit6 statement,” murmured Dan, laying aside the crackers7. “Lillian, my child, you must not eat any more nuts, or you will be having indigestion.”
“I believe Dad has indigestion already.”
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