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Unless the stroke he had already suffered had rendered him very much more incapable than Cardross had reason to suppose, he could be trusted to overbear his lady’s opposition the instant he received the intelligence that Dysart was not only associating on the friendliest terms with scamps, pads, and drivers, but was also in a fair way to becoming a boon companion of one whom his lordship had been amongst the first to ostracize. Nine
Wenn er sich durch den Schlaganfall, welchen er erlitten, nicht in einem weit hilfloseren Zustand befand, als Cardross anzunehmen Grund hatte, konnte man sich darauf verlassen, daß er die Opposition seiner Frau im selben Augenblick überwinden würde, in welchem er die Nachricht erhielt, daß Dysart nicht nur in freundschaftlichsten Beziehungen zu Taugenichtsen, Landstreichern und Kutschern stand, sondern sich auf dem besten Wege befand, der Zechbruder.
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