go to sleep yet, papa, do you?” she said, as she brought up her stool and opened the large fingers that clutched the snuff-box.
“Not yet,” said Mr. Deane, glancing at the reward of merit in the decanter. “But what do you want?” he added, pinching the dimpled chin fondly — “to coax some more sovereigns out of my pocket for your bazaar? Eh?”
“No, I have no base motives at all to-day. I only want to talk, not to beg. I want to know what made you ask Philip Wakem about his father’s farming to-day, papa? It seemed rather odd, because you never hardly say anything to him about his father; and why should you care about Mr. Wakem’s losing money by his hobby?”
“Something to do with business,” said Mr. Deane, waving his hands, as if to repel intrusion into that mystery.
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