Excerpt from Wreck and Ruin, Vol. 3 of 3: Or Modern Society

The agitation consequent on the melancholy event just chronicled had subsided at Richmond Hall, weeks had hurried by, but Mr. Walpole still remained unusually grave, and apparently sorrowing. Nothing worthy of mention had taken place, more than his investment, under the advice of Phipps, of an additional five thousand pounds in the Bank of Swindledum.

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