The £1,000,000 Bank-Note • Paragraph 120
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‘Let me just stand here a little and look my fill! Dear me, it’s a palace; it’s just a palace! And in it everything a body _could_ desire, including cozy coal fire and supper standing ready. Henry, it doesn’t merely make me realise how rich you are; it makes me realise to the bone, to the marrow, how poor I am—how poor I am—and how miserable, how defeated, routed, annihilated!’