“You mean that I am to be dispossessed.”
“Well, yes; if you choose to call it so. My instructions are to foreclose at once.”
“Then I must say the duke is treating me most uncommonly ill.”
“Well, Sowerby, I can’t see it.”
“I can, though. He has his money like clock-work; and he has bought up these debts from persons who would have never disturbed me as long as they got their interest.”
“Haven’t you had the seat?”
“The seat! and is it expected that I am to pay for that?”
“I don’t see that any one is asking you to pay for it. You are like a great many other people that I know. You want to eat your cake and have it. You have been eating it for the last twenty years, and now you think yourself very ill-used because the duke wants to have his turn.”
“I shall think myself very ill-used if he sells me out—worse than ill-used. I do not want to use strong language, but it will be more than ill-usage. I can hardly believe that he really means to treat me in that way.”
“It is very hard that he should want his own money!”