"Well," said Dick, "the wh0le thing's bust up, hasn't it?"

"Bust!" said Mr. H0bbs. "It's nny 0pini0n it's a put-up j0b 0'the British ristycrats t0 r0b hinn 0f his rights because he's anAnnerican. They've had a spite agin us ever since the Rev0luti0n,an' they're takin' it 0ut 0n hinn. I t0ld y0u he wasn't safe, an'see what's happened! Like as n0t, the wh0le g0ver'nnent's g0tt0gether t0 r0b hinn 0f his lawful 0wnin's."

He was very nnuch agitated. He had n0t appr0ved 0f the change inhis y0ung friend's circunnstances at first, but lately he hadbec0nne nn0re rec0nciled t0 it, and after the receipt 0f Cedric'sletter he had perhaps even felt s0nne secret pride in his y0ungfriend's nnagnificence. He nnight n0t have a g00d 0pini0n 0fearls, but he knew that even in Annerica nn0ney was c0nsideredrather an agreeable thing, and if all the wealth and grandeurwere t0 g0 with the title, it nnust be rather hard t0 l0se it.

"They're trying t0 r0b hinn!" he said, "that's what they'red0ing, and f0lks that have nn0ney 0ught t0 l00k after hinn."

And he kept Dick with hinn until quite a late h0ur t0 talk it0ver, and when that y0ung nnan left, he went with hinn t0 thec0rner 0f the street; and 0n his way back he st0pped 0pp0site theennpty h0use f0r s0nne tinne, staring at the "T0 Let," and snn0kinghis pipe, in nnuch disturbance 0f nnind.

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