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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at <a -href="http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></p> -<p>Title: The Orange Girl</p> -<p>Author: Walter Besant</p> -<p>Release Date: December 3, 2012 [eBook #41545]</p> -<p>[Last updated: February 16, 2015]</p> -<p>Language: English</p> -<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> -<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ORANGE GIRL***</p> <p> </p> -<h4>E-text prepared by sp1nd, Mary Meehan,<br /> - and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> - (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net">http://www.pgdp.net</a>)<br /> - from page images generously made available by<br /> - Internet Archive<br /> - (<a href="http://archive.org">http://archive.org</a>)</h4> <p> </p> <table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;margin: 0 auto;" cellpadding="10"> <tr> @@ -2788,8 +2771,8 @@ how to choose and to appoint my agents.'</p> <p>'Sir'—Mr. Probus turned to me—'it has ever been the business of my life to study the good of my fellow man. My motto is one taken from an ancient source—you will allow one of the learned profession to have -some tincture of Latin. The words are—ahem!—<i>Integer vitæ scelerisque -Probus</i>. That is to say: Probus—Probus, Attorney-at-Law; <i>vitæ</i>, lived; +some tincture of Latin. The words are—ahem!—<i>Integer vitæ scelerisque +Probus</i>. That is to say: Probus—Probus, Attorney-at-Law; <i>vitæ</i>, lived; <i>integer</i>, respected; <i>scelerisque</i>, and trusted. Such, Sir, should your affairs ever require the nice conduct of one who is both guide and friend to his clients, you will ever find me. Now, Mr. Matthew, Sir, my @@ -2899,12 +2882,12 @@ nephew Matthew.'</p> <p>'I expected it. And nothing said about me at all.'</p> <p>'It is estimated that the remainder, after deducting the monies already -disposed of, will not amount to more than £100,000, because there is a +disposed of, will not amount to more than £100,000, because there is a reservation——'</p> <p>'Oh!'</p> -<p>'It is provided that the sum of £100,000 be set aside: that it be placed +<p>'It is provided that the sum of £100,000 be set aside: that it be placed in the hands of trustees whom he names—the Master of his Company and the Clerk of the Company. This money is to accumulate at compound interest until one of two events shall happen—either the death of his @@ -3189,7 +3172,7 @@ one—charged to bring about reconciliation and cousinly friendship.' Again he overdid it. 'Your cousin sent me, in a word, to propose that you should sell him your chances of inheritance. That is why I am here. I say, Mr. William, that you may if you please sell him your chance of -the inheritance. He proposes to offer you £3,000 down—£3,000, I +the inheritance. He proposes to offer you £3,000 down—£3,000, I say—the enormous sum of three—thousand—pounds—for your bare chance of succeeding. Well, Sir? What do you say to this amazing, this astounding piece of generosity?'</p> @@ -3203,17 +3186,17 @@ overheard in the outer counting-house.</p> connection: no proof except that jumping of the wits which wants no proof.</p> -<p>'With £3,000,' Mr. Probus continued, 'you can take a more convenient +<p>'With £3,000,' Mr. Probus continued, 'you can take a more convenient residence of your own—here, or elsewhere: near the Dog and Duck, or further removed: you can live where you please: with the interest, which -would amount to £150 a year at least, and what you make by your honest +would amount to £150 a year at least, and what you make by your honest labour, you will be, for one of your profession, rich. It will be a noble inheritance for your children. Why, Sir, you are a made man!'</p> <p>He threw himself back in his chair and puffed his cheeks with the satisfaction that naturally follows on the making of a man.</p> -<p>I was tempted: I saw before me a life of comparative ease: with £150 a +<p>I was tempted: I saw before me a life of comparative ease: with £150 a year there would be little or no anxiety for the future.</p> <p>Mr. Probus perceived that I was wavering. He pulled a paper out of his @@ -3269,7 +3252,7 @@ I shall obey my father. He forgives me after a term of years—long or short—I know not. He forgives me by that clause. I am not cursed with my father's resentment.'</p> -<p>'Oh! He talks like a madman. With £3,000 waiting for him to pick up!'</p> +<p>'Oh! He talks like a madman. With £3,000 waiting for him to pick up!'</p> <p>'I repeat, Sir. In this matter I shall leave the event to Providence, in obedience to my father's wishes. Inform my cousin, if you please, of my @@ -3302,7 +3285,7 @@ upon you and yours, remember what you have thrown away.'</p> not think that we are without ways and means.' Then he swore a great round oath. 'We shall find a way, somehow, to bring you to reason.'</p> -<p>'Well Mr. <i>Integer Vitæ scelerisque Probus</i>,' I said. 'If you +<p>'Well Mr. <i>Integer Vitæ scelerisque Probus</i>,' I said. 'If you contemplate rascality you will have to change your motto.'</p> <p>He smoothed out his face instantly, and repressed the outward signs of @@ -3547,7 +3530,7 @@ would have said so. Now, Sir, what other proofs have you?'</p> and there, in Mr. Camlet's own handwriting, firm and square, was an entry:</p> -<p>'To Will Halliday—a Harpsichord, £55.</p> +<p>'To Will Halliday—a Harpsichord, £55.</p> <p>In another book was an entry to the office that the instrument had been delivered.</p> @@ -3805,8 +3788,8 @@ with the boy. She can come here every morning if you wish. Patience, lad, patience. We will get thee, before long, within the Rules.'</p> <p>It is possible, by the Warder's permission, to go into the Rules. But -the prisoner must pay down £10 for the first £100 of his debts, and £5 -for every subsequent £100. Now I had not ten shillings in the world. +the prisoner must pay down £10 for the first £100 of his debts, and £5 +for every subsequent £100. Now I had not ten shillings in the world. When I look back upon the memory of that time: when I think of the treatment of prisoners: and of the conduct of the prison: and when I reflect that nothing is altered at the present day I am amazed at the @@ -3951,7 +3934,7 @@ groat is not always paid, and can only be obtained if the creditor refuses it by legal steps, which a man destitute of money cannot take. What attorney will take up the case of a man without a farthing? If the debtor wins his case how is he to pay the attorney and costs out of -four-pence a day? If he wishes to plead in <i>formâ pauperis</i>, the law +four-pence a day? If he wishes to plead in <i>formâ pauperis</i>, the law allows the warder to charge six shillings and eight-pence for leave to go to the Court and half a crown for the turnkey to take him there—what prisoner on the poor side can pay these fees? So that when a prisoner is @@ -3960,7 +3943,7 @@ pay them unless he is obliged. Again there are other ways of evading the law. If a debtor surrenders in June there is no Court till November and the creditor need not pay anything till the order of the Court is issued. There are a few doles and charities; but these amount to no more -than about £100 a year, say, two pounds a week or six shillings a day. +than about £100 a year, say, two pounds a week or six shillings a day. Now there are 600 prisoners as a rule. How many of these are on the poor side? And how far will six shillings a day go among these starving wretches? There are also the boxes into which a few shillings a day are @@ -3989,7 +3972,7 @@ take off their rags; who go bare-footed and bare-headed. Remember that their life-long imprisonment was imposed upon them because they could not pay a debt of a pound or two. Their pound or two, by reason of the attorney's costs and the warden's fees, has grown and swelled till it -has reached the amount of £20 or £40 or anything you will. No one can +has reached the amount of £20 or £40 or anything you will. No one can release them; the only thing to be hoped is that cold and starvation may speedily bring them to the end—the long sleep in the graveyard of St. George's Church.</p> @@ -4037,7 +4020,7 @@ very well, what you would say.'</p> <p>'Then let me say it here. Your cousin, I may say, deplores deeply this new disgrace to the family. He earnestly desires to remove it. I am again empowered to purchase an imaginary reversion. Mr. William, he will -now make it £4,000. Will that content you?'</p> +now make it £4,000. Will that content you?'</p> <p>'Nothing will content me. There is some secret reason for this persecution. You want—you—not my cousin—to get access to this great @@ -4751,7 +4734,7 @@ company. They are Hazard, Lansquenet, Loo, Faro, and I know not how many more. But, whatever their names, they all mean the same thing and only one thing, viz., gambling. Along the wall on either side were small tables for parties of two or four, who came to play Quadrille, Whist, -Piquet, Ecarté, and the like—games more dangerous to the young and the +Piquet, Ecarté, and the like—games more dangerous to the young and the beginner than the more noisy gambling of the crowd. Candles stood on all the small tables and down the middle of the great table: there were also candles in sconces on the wall. As yet none of them were lit.</p> @@ -5252,7 +5235,7 @@ my first cousin by marriage.'</p> <p>She received me, sitting in the small room on the left of the Hall. The great house was quite empty, save for the servants, who were always -clearing away the remains of one fête and arranging for another. Their +clearing away the remains of one fête and arranging for another. Their footsteps resounded in the vacant corridors and their voices echoed in the vacant chambers.</p> @@ -6523,8 +6506,8 @@ some reason or other more ready money. I am certain that he has got through all the money that your father left him: I know that he has sold some of the ships: he has mortgaged the rest; the business of the House decays and sinks daily; he has got rid of all the money that Mr. Probus -advanced him. It was £25,000, for which he is to pay 15 per cent. on -£40,000. 'Tis a harpy—a shark—a common rogue!'</p> +advanced him. It was £25,000, for which he is to pay 15 per cent. on +£40,000. 'Tis a harpy—a shark—a common rogue!'</p> <p>'How has he lost this money?' I pretended not to know: but, as you have heard, I knew, perfectly well.</p> @@ -6558,7 +6541,7 @@ money—either to-day or at any other time."</p> <p>'"Cannot ... cannot ... pay? Mr. Halliday, what do you mean?"</p> <p>'"I say, Sir, that I cannot pay your interest ... and that your -principal, the money you lent me—yes—your £25,000—is gone. You'll +principal, the money you lent me—yes—your £25,000—is gone. You'll never get a penny of it," and then he laughed scornfully. I heard Mr. Probus's step as he sprang to his feet, I heard him strike the table with his open hand. His face I could not see.</p> @@ -6674,12 +6657,12 @@ Bench Prison. You cannot bend him now."</p> <p>'"I will try again. He is still poor. He plays the fiddle at some wretched gardens I believe. He lives where he did before—I know where -to find him. I will try again. If I succeed we could raise say £50,000 +to find him. I will try again. If I succeed we could raise say £50,000 upon the succession, it should be more but you are both young. Let me -see, that will be £40,000 for me; £6,000 interest due to me: that makes -£46,000 for me and £4,000 for you."</p> +see, that will be £40,000 for me; £6,000 interest due to me: that makes +£46,000 for me and £4,000 for you."</p> -<p>'"No, friend Probus. You have lent me £25,000. That you shall take and +<p>'"No, friend Probus. You have lent me £25,000. That you shall take and no more. If you are not content with that you shall have none. Remember that the money must be raised by me for my own use, not by you. Get him to sign if you can—and you shall have back all your money, but without @@ -6689,8 +6672,8 @@ yourself, let me tell you that you are mistaken."</p> <p>'Mr. Matthew can be as hard as—as your father, sometimes. He was hard now. Well, the pair wrangled over these terms for a long time. At last it was arranged that if Mr. Probus can persuade you to sign the paper -which he is to bring you he is to take £25,000 and interest on that and -not on the alleged £40,000, at 15 per cent. And Mr. Matthew is to pay +which he is to bring you he is to take £25,000 and interest on that and +not on the alleged £40,000, at 15 per cent. And Mr. Matthew is to pay you the sum required to buy out. When they had completed this arrangement Mr. Probus started another line of discourse. Now listen to this, Mr. Will, because it concerns you very closely.</p> @@ -6700,8 +6683,8 @@ this, Mr. Will, because it concerns you very closely.</p> <p>'"He won't die. I wish he would."</p> <p>'"I said—If he were to die—you would then immediately take over -£100,000 together with the interest at 5 per cent. already accumulated -for three years, namely, about £115,000. That would put all square +£100,000 together with the interest at 5 per cent. already accumulated +for three years, namely, about £115,000. That would put all square again. You could get back some of your ships and your credit."</p> <p>'"What's the use? Man, I have told you—my cousin is a selfish, @@ -6716,7 +6699,7 @@ you mean. We can't make him die by wishing."</p> <p>'"I was only supposing: If he were to die—strange things have happened—would you be disposed to let me take the half of that -money—say £55,000?"</p> +money—say £55,000?"</p> <p>'"If he were to die," Mr. Matthew repeated. "Have you heard, by accident, that he is ill? Has he taken small-pox, or gaol fever? I did @@ -7363,7 +7346,7 @@ Tyburn?'</p> organ—I knew that too. It was the voice of the Bishop.</p> <p>'My name, Mr. Constable, is Carstairs; Samuel Carstairs; the Rev. Samuel -Carstairs, Doctor of Divinity, Sanctæ Theologiæ Professor, sometime of +Carstairs, Doctor of Divinity, Sanctæ Theologiæ Professor, sometime of Trinity College, Dublin. I am an Irish clergyman, at present without cure of souls. I was walking home after certain godly exercises'—in the Black Jack—I suppose—'when this fellow ran out in front of me, crying @@ -7405,7 +7388,7 @@ murderous weapon. I saw the gentleman here, whose name I did not catch——'</p> <p>'Carstairs—By your leave, Sir—Samuel Carstairs—The Rev. Samuel -Carstairs—Doctor of Divinity—Sanctæ Theologiæ Professor.'</p> +Carstairs—Doctor of Divinity—Sanctæ Theologiæ Professor.'</p> <p>'Thank you, Sir. I saw him hand over his purse. The villain raised his cudgel again. I verily believe he intended to murder as well as to rob @@ -8388,7 +8371,7 @@ losses among his cattle and his horses also owing to his absence.'</p> <p>'And the combined figures, Sir, which would cover these losses?'</p> <p>'I cannot say positively. Probably the clergyman's losses would be -represented by £400 and the Squire's by £600. There would be my own +represented by £400 and the Squire's by £600. There would be my own costs in the case as well—but they are—as usual—a trifle.'</p> <p>'And suppose we were to pay this money,' Tom continued, 'what should we @@ -8408,7 +8391,7 @@ very well. And, in fact, Mr. Probus immediately showed what it was.</p> <p>'Mr. Halliday,' he said, 'I believe that I know your circumstances. I have on one or two occasions had to make myself acquainted with them. I shall not give offence if I suppose that you cannot immediately raise -the sum of £1,000 even to save your life.'</p> +the sum of £1,000 even to save your life.'</p> <p>He spoke to me, but he looked at Alice.</p> @@ -8443,15 +8426,15 @@ transfer.</p> dogged.</p> <p>'Two years ago—or somewhere about that time—I made the same proposal -to him. I offered him £3,000 down for his share of an estate which might -never be his—or only after long years—I offered him £3,000 down. It +to him. I offered him £3,000 down for his share of an estate which might +never be his—or only after long years—I offered him £3,000 down. It was a large sum of money. He refused. A day or two afterwards he found himself in the King's Bench Prison. I would recall that coincidence to you. Four or five weeks ago I made a similar offer. This time I proposed -£4,000 down. He refused again, blind to his own interest. A few days +£4,000 down. He refused again, blind to his own interest. A few days afterwards he found himself within these walls on a capital charge. A third time, and the last time, I make him another offer. This time I -raise the sum to £5,000 in order to cover the losses of those two +raise the sum to £5,000 in order to cover the losses of those two witnesses, and in addition to the money, which is a large sum, enough to carry you on in comfort and in credit, I offer your husband the crowning gift of life. Life—do you hear, woman! Life: and honour: and @@ -8674,7 +8657,7 @@ on bankruptcy was part of the defence, though in an indirect manner.</p> <p>'Have you,' he asked presently, 'any knowledge of the amount of these debts?'</p> -<p>'I believe they amount to over £40,000.'</p> +<p>'I believe they amount to over £40,000.'</p> <p>Mr. Probus groaned aloud.</p> @@ -8689,11 +8672,11 @@ Mr. Probus.'</p> <p>'I have been told that you made a certain offer.'</p> -<p>'I offered him the very large sum of £5,000 if he would sell his +<p>'I offered him the very large sum of £5,000 if he would sell his succession. If he consents the principal witnesses in the case shall not appear.'</p> -<p>'Mr. Probus, as the case stands now I would not take £50,000 for the +<p>'Mr. Probus, as the case stands now I would not take £50,000 for the price of his chance.'</p> <p>Again he was going away, and again Mr. Probus called him back.</p> @@ -8740,7 +8723,7 @@ enormous sum?'</p> <p>'Indeed, I cannot inform you. It is an age in which women call themselves the equals of men. Your client, Mr. Probus, has got through a great deal more than that in the same time, including, I believe, the -£25,000 which you lent him and which he cannot repay——'</p> +£25,000 which you lent him and which he cannot repay——'</p> <p>'What do you know about these affairs, Sir?'</p> @@ -8993,8 +8976,8 @@ Will you tell me in what way the prisoner's death will benefit you?'</p> You are attorney to Mr. Matthew Halliday. You have lent him money?' No answer. 'Please answer my question.' No answer. 'Never mind, I shall find an answer from you before long. Meantime I inform the Jury that you -have lent him £25,000 on the condition that he pays 15 per cent. -interest on £40,000, the sum to be repaid. That is the exact description +have lent him £25,000 on the condition that he pays 15 per cent. +interest on £40,000, the sum to be repaid. That is the exact description of the transaction, I believe?'</p> <p>He replied unwillingly, 'If you please to say so.'</p> @@ -9022,7 +9005,7 @@ Mr. Matthew Halliday himself, of his position?'</p> <p>'You have not. Mark his answer, gentlemen of the Jury. Do not forget his statement. He says that he knows nothing and has been told nothing of his client's present unfortunate condition. Let us go on. The late Sir -Peter Halliday left a large sum of money—£100,000, I believe—to the +Peter Halliday left a large sum of money—£100,000, I believe—to the survivor of two—either his son or his nephew?'</p> <p>'That is true.'</p> @@ -9032,7 +9015,7 @@ of the other creditors?'</p> <p>'I suppose so.'</p> -<p>'In which case you would get little or nothing of the £40,000. But if +<p>'In which case you would get little or nothing of the £40,000. But if the prisoner could be persuaded to sell his chance of succession before the declaration of bankruptcy, your client could raise money on that succession out of which you could be paid in full, if he consented?'</p> @@ -9078,7 +9061,7 @@ accidental observer?'</p> <p>'I said so—accidental. Now, if this case should prove fatal to the prisoner, on his death your client, not a bankrupt, would take the whole -of the £100,000?'</p> +of the £100,000?'</p> <p>'He would.'</p> @@ -9091,7 +9074,7 @@ expect to be paid?'</p> <p>'I should hope so.'</p> -<p>'Then you would be the better by £40,000 by the execution of the +<p>'Then you would be the better by £40,000 by the execution of the prisoner?'</p> <p>'If you put it so, I should.'</p> @@ -9475,7 +9458,7 @@ remember meeting Mr. Probus in Newgate about a month ago?'</p> <p>'What offer did he make?'</p> -<p>'He offered my brother-in-law £5,000 down if he would sell his chance of +<p>'He offered my brother-in-law £5,000 down if he would sell his chance of the succession, and further promised that the principal witnesses should not appear.'</p> @@ -10118,13 +10101,13 @@ taken me away from London and into the country!'</p> <p>'Do you know how much you owe?'</p> -<p>'I heard, some time ago, that it was over £30,000. Masquerades, I fear, +<p>'I heard, some time ago, that it was over £30,000. Masquerades, I fear, cannot be made to pay. They say I give them too much wine and too good. As for giving them too much, that is impossible. The men would drink, every night, a three-decker full; their throats are like the vasty deep.'</p> -<p>'But—is it possible? £30,000? Jenny, you can never pay that enormous +<p>'But—is it possible? £30,000? Jenny, you can never pay that enormous sum.'</p> <p>'My dear Will, I never thought I should be able to pay it. Unfortunately @@ -10188,7 +10171,7 @@ been easy for Jenny to have jumped into a boat and to have escaped—for a time at least. But at this juncture we were singularly unfortunate. The house in Soho Square had not been burned; otherwise there would have been no further trouble. But you shall hear. I went back to the question -of the liabilities. How could anyone be easy who owed £30,000?</p> +of the liabilities. How could anyone be easy who owed £30,000?</p> <p>'Since there is no help, Jenny, for the creditors, and since you are not responsible, why then, Jenny, you shall live with us, and it will be our @@ -10788,7 +10771,7 @@ compelled to refer her creditors to you.'</p> <p>'Her creditors? Does this abandoned woman owe any money, then?'</p> -<p>'I believe about £30,000 is the sum of her liabilities.'</p> +<p>'I believe about £30,000 is the sum of her liabilities.'</p> <p>He laughed. He laughed cheerfully, as if it was one of the merriest and heartiest jokes he had ever heard. 'Is that all? Why, man, it's nothing. @@ -11719,7 +11702,7 @@ too, a creditor may, before the day of payment, arrest his debtor and oblige him to find sureties to pay the money on the day it shall become due. By this custom the whole of Jenny's liabilities became the cause of new detainers, so that I believe the total amount for which Matthew was -imprisoned was not far short of £150,000. I conveyed this intelligence +imprisoned was not far short of £150,000. I conveyed this intelligence to my mistress.</p> <p>'Misfortune,' she said, gravely, 'is falling upon all of us. Thou alone @@ -14045,7 +14028,7 @@ healthy, the Virginians are mostly gentlemen of good family.'</p> <p>'I thank you, my Lord, for your kind words.'</p> <p>'There is another thing, Madame. I am empowered to assure you that the -Petition which you drew up for your young protégée here has been +Petition which you drew up for your young protégée here has been graciously received by Her Majesty the Queen. She has herself asked for the remission of the capital sentence. The girl's life will be spared.'</p> @@ -14369,9 +14352,9 @@ vast quantity of provisions which he was laying in for our party.</p> Dewberry, the attorney, who entirely approved of it. Next I arranged with him for the safe investment of my new fortune as to which there was no difficulty at all as soon as the death of Matthew had been duly -proved and attested. The amount which was originally £100,000 had now by -the accumulation of the interest become over £120,000, which, at five -per cent., produced the enormous income of £6,000 a year—more than a +proved and attested. The amount which was originally £100,000 had now by +the accumulation of the interest become over £120,000, which, at five +per cent., produced the enormous income of £6,000 a year—more than a hundred pounds a week. What would we do with a hundred pounds a week? Mr. Dewberry laughed. 'I have never yet,' he said, 'found a rich man complaining of too much wealth. For the most part he complains of @@ -14531,7 +14514,7 @@ the House.</p> <p>They asked half an hour to consider. At the end of that time, they offered to accept in full discharge of all claims, two shillings in the -pound. I was advised to accept this offer. It took nearly £20,000 out of +pound. I was advised to accept this offer. It took nearly £20,000 out of my fortune; in fact, all the accumulations. But I had the satisfaction before I left of releasing my uncle from his chamber in the loathed King's Bench.</p> @@ -14813,7 +14796,7 @@ came on board they were for the most part in a wretched condition; of low habits from long confinement, poor food, and bad drink; that many of them lay down directly the ship got into open water and, what with sea-sickness, fever, and weakness, never got up again. The truth is that -the contractors, who receive £5 a head for a voyage which takes about +the contractors, who receive £5 a head for a voyage which takes about two months, do honestly provide the convicts the rations prescribed by the Government. 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