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What Will He Do with It — Volume 03 by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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stand piled high with musical compositions of various schools and
graduated complexity from "lessons for beginners" to the most arduous
gamut of a German oratorio, slunk pathetically a poor lute-harp, the
strings long since broken. There, too, by the window, hung a wire bird-
cage, the bird long since dead. In a word, round the woman gazing on
Jasper Losely, as he complacently drank his brandy, grouped the forlorn
tokens of an early state,--the lost golden age of happy girlish studies,
of harmless girlish tastes.

"Basta, eno'," said Mr. Losely, pushing aside the glass which he had
twice filled and twice drained, "to business. Let me see the child:
I feel up to it now."

A darker shade fell over Arabella Crane's face, as she said," The child!
she is not here! I have disposed of her long ago."

"Eh!--disposed of her! what do you mean?"

"Do you ask as if you feared I had put her out of the world? No! Well,
then,--you come to England to see the child? You miss--you love, the
child of that--of that--" She paused, checked herself, and added in an
altered voice, "of that honest, high-minded gentlewoman whose memory must
be so dear to me,--you love that child; very natural, Jasper."

"Love her! a child I have scarcely seen since she was born! do talk
common-sense. No. But have I not told you that she ought to be money's
worth to me; ay, and she shall be yet, despite that proud man's
disdainful insolence."

"That proud man! what, you have ventured to address him--visit him--since
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