Mrs. Bowls cautioned her lodger against venturing into the lion's den,

"wherein you will rue it, Miss B., mark my words, and as sure as my

name is Bowls." And Briggs promised to be very cautious. The upshot of

which caution was that she went to live with Mrs. Rawdon the next week,

and had lent Rawdon Crawley six hundred pounds upon annuity before six

months were over.




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