The negotiations, in a rather grandiose sitting-room, took some time. Lord Rodney required a great deal of reassuring, yet at the same time I wished him to give Mrs. Tupper a great deal of money; those two objectives were difficult to reconcile or to accomplish simultaneously.
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I tried to reason with him. "Mrs. Tupper has no idea of your name, or your brother's name, or who you are, or where she has been taken -- is this not so?"
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He looked ruefully upon the old woman, who, much comforted by tea and my presence, had dozed off in her blue velvet armchair. "Yes, I believe that is correct."
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"Doubtless you have noticed, also, that she is somewhat hampered in her ability to communicate."
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