Mary Balogh - Sullivan 01 by Luciana

Author:Luciana [Luciana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-02-05T12:01:13+00:00

Lesley drew his horse to a halt outside the stables. He was still frowning. "But it is the rents that are most impor-tant to you, Freddie," he said, "not Jule. You wouldn't marry her without them, would you?"

"Les," his brother said, "this is the real world. This is not fantasyland. In this world money is necessary for survival."

"Papa gives you plenty of money." Lesley looked troubled. "He gives me plenty, Freddie, but he gives you more, I know.

And you will inherit when Papa dies."

"Which may be a long time in the future," Frederick said. "Which I hope will be a long time in the future. In the meantime we both have to live. And you know that Papa is not the sort of person to whom one goes to ask for more blunt. For one thing it would be humiliating. And for an-other he would assume that sorrowful look he always used to have when we were lined up for canings. As if we had disappointed him beyond measure. As if the whipping was going to hurt him more than it hurt us. Gad, Les, he knows how to make one abject with guilt and misery."

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