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Don't speak to me, for I find my nerves a little shaken!' Nobody would have thought so, to see her sitting upright, with her arms folded; but she had wonderful self-command. 'Then I am delighted to say,' cried Traddles, beaming with joy, 'that we have recovered the whole money!' 'Don't congratulate me, anybody!' exclaimed my aunt. 'How so, sir?' 'You believed it had been misappropriated by Mr. Wickfield?' said Traddles. 'Of course I did,' said my aunt, 'and was therefore easily silenced. Agnes, not a word!' 'And indeed,' said Traddles, 'it was sold, by virtue of the power of management he held from you; but I needn't say by whom sold, or on whose actual signature. It was afterwards pretended to Mr. Wickfield, by that rascal, - and proved, too, by figures, - that he had possessed himself of the money (on general instructions, he said) to keep other deficiencies and difficulties from the light. Mr. Wickfield, being so weak and helpless in his hands as to pay you, afterwards, several sums of interest on a pretended principal which he knew did not exist, made himself, unhappily, a party to the fraud.' 'And at last took the blame upon himself,' added my aunt; 'and wrote me a mad letter, charging himself with robbery, and wrong unheard of. Upon which I paid him a visit early one morning, called for a candle, burnt the letter, and told him if he ever could right me and himself, to do it; and if he couldn't, to keep his own counsel for his daughter's sake. - If anybody speaks to me, I'll leave the house!' We all remained quiet; Agnes covering her face. 'Well, my dear friend,' said my aunt, after a pause, 'and you have really extorted the money back from him?' 'Why, the fact is,' returned Traddles, 'Mr. Micawber had so completely hemmed him in, and was always ready with so many new points if an old one failed, that he could not escape from us. A most remarkable circumstance is, that I really don't think he |
