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Ralph’s own statement--must be perfectly notorious. As to the
fraud on Madeline herself, his visitor knew so little about its
nature or extent, that it might be a lucky guess, or a hap-hazard
accusation. Whether or no, he had clearly no key to the mystery,
and could not hurt him who kept it close within his own breast.
The allusion to friends, and the offer of money, Gride held to be
mere empty vapouring, for purposes of delay. ‘And even if money
were to be had,’ thought Arthur Glide, as he glanced at Nicholas,
and trembled with passion at his boldness and audacity, ‘I’d have
that dainty chick for my wife, and cheat you of her, young smooth-
face!’

Long habit of weighing and noting well what clients said, and
nicely balancing chances in his mind and calculating odds to their
faces, without the least appearance of being so engaged, had
rendered Gride quick in forming conclusions, and arriving, from
puzzling, intricate, and often contradictory premises, at very
cunning deductions. Hence it was that, as Nicholas went on, he
followed him closely with his own constructions, and, when he
ceased to speak, was as well prepared as if he had deliberated for a
fortnight.

‘I hear you,’ he cried, starting from his seat, casting back the
fastenings of the window-shutters, and throwing up the sash.
‘Help here! Help! Help!’

‘What are you doing?’ said Nicholas, seizing him by the arm.
‘I’ll cry robbers, thieves, murder, alarm the neighbourhood,
struggle with you, let loose some blood, and swear you came to rob
me, if you don’t quit my house,’ replied Gride, drawing in his head
with a frightful grin, ‘I will!’

‘Wretch!’ cried Nicholas.


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