A Fair Fraud — page 172: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 161 back into clean and honourable paths, then it will be time to talk about making allow- ances |’ She sighed deeply. She wondered miserably to herself how he could possibly expect her to shake off the dragging chain of her father’s criminal past—of his equally disgraceful present ! That her father would apply in time again for money, either to herself or to her mother, was not merely probable, it was a moral certainty | But who could possibly rid her of this incubus? Her only hope was to get him to go abroad. She had already determined to try and persuade him to emigrate either to America or to South Africa with this two hundred pounds, and to begin life over again out there. In this way only could his wife and daughter hope for peace and security. She meant to talk it over with her mother before she met her father again. ‘It doesn’t seem much use our talking any more about it, does it?’ she said drearily. ‘What is, is unalterable. Nothing in the future can change the circumstances of the case. All that I implore you to do is to help me in my present dire extremity. The money I ask you for will avert certain dangers that threaten me and others. God knows what a bitter humiliation it is to me to ask you for it!’ ‘I have promised you the money. You L COMNMUC JOO <S (GO) uu