"
"But I only meant that we should have to be very careful how we
lived. I don't know quite whether I am so good at being careful about
money as a fellow ought to be."
"You must take a lesson from me, sir."
"I have sent the horses to Tattersall's, he said in a tone that was
almost funereal.
"What!--already?"
"I gave the order yesterday. They are to be sold,--I don't know when.
They won't fetch anything. They never do. One always buys bad horses
there for a lot of money, and sells good ones for nothing. Where the
difference goes to I never could make out."
"I suppose the man gets it who sells them."
"No; he don't. The fellows get it who have their eyes open. My eyes
never were open,--except as far as seeing you went."
"Perhaps if you had opened them wider you wouldn't have to go to--"
"Don't, Adelaide. But, as I was saying about the horses, when they're
sold of course the bills won't go on. And I suppose things will come
right. I don't owe so very much."
"I've got something to tell you," she said.
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