Arthur Conan Doyle,
The Doings of Raffles Haw — Chapter XII
(1892)
“ I congratulate you, Laura, with all my heart, for you will be a very wealthy woman.""How strange it seems that he should have come to us in our poverty. It is all owing to you, you dear old Robert; for if he had not taken a fancy to you, he would never have come down to Elmdene and taken a fancy to some one else." ”
Arthur Conan Doyle,
The Doings of Raffles Haw — Chapter XII
(1892)
“ Secrets or no secrets, you will find that Laura has a father, and that he is not a man to be set aside. I may have had my ups and downs in trade, but I have not quite fallen so low that I am nothing in my own family. ”
Arthur Conan Doyle,
The Doings of Raffles Haw — Chapter XII
(1892)
“ A thousand gold-tinted visions of his future life rose up before him, and in fancy he already sat high above the human race, with prostrate thousands imploring his aid, or thanking him for his benevolence. ”
