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p06-096-08.png | future happiness . Had ever circum- |
p06-096-09.png | stances conspired so cunningly ? |
p06-096-10.png | Philip's spirits soared . |
p06-104-00.png | He was better ; he had made a |
p06-104-01.png | miraculous recovery and Sandra would |
p06-104-02.png | soon be his wife . The Devil , he thought , |
p06-104-03.png | certainly looked after his own . |
p06-104-04.png | Something in Sandra's attitude struck |
p06-104-05.png | him suddenly , making him say : |
p06-104-06.png | ' You can't forgive him for this - |
p06-104-07.png | can you ? ' ' Forgive is an unctuous , |
p06-104-08.png | patronizing word , ' she replied . ' I despise |
p06-104-09.png | the deceit . The lies . ' |
p06-242-00.png | Philip bristled . ' It was never our intention |
p06-242-01.png | to have one of those carnival affairs , ' he |
p06-242-02.png | retorted and in that second , he became the man of |
p06-242-03.png | success exerting authority . Sandra watched her father's |
p06-242-04.png | face pale . Philip , she knew , got on his nerves , but |
p06-242-05.png | everything had gone over her head . It didn't really |
p06-242-06.png | matter what was being said because she was |
p06-242-07.png | no longer a part of it . |
p06-248-00.png | The thought of Nicholas haunted her , the sense of |
p06-248-01.png | loss crucifying . Her father's comment roused her as |
p06-248-02.png | he said , ' I was not talking of a carnival . But I |
p06-248-03.png | presume we shall be allowed to have one or two |
p06-248-04.png | of our friends at the ceremony . ' |
r02-000-00.png | He had long sensed injustice in the distinctions |
r02-000-01.png | drawn between ordinary wage-earners and those |
r02-000-02.png | self-employed . By the time his monthly salary |
r02-000-03.png | arrived , the Inland Revenue had already taken |
r02-000-04.png | their share , and there were precious few |
r02-000-05.png | reductions in tax save for wives , children , |
r02-000-06.png | life-insurances or any of the other normal |
r02-000-07.png | encumbrances which Cecil had so far avoided . |
r02-003-00.png | He read the film star's sorry story and frowned at the |
r02-003-01.png | provisions of Schedule D taxation which not only allowed her |
r02-003-02.png | to claim relief on the most unlikely purchases , but also |
r02-003-03.png | postponed demanding the tax until her financial year |
r02-003-04.png | was ended , audited and agreed by the Inspector . The |
r02-003-05.png | process could , and often did take several years . |
r02-006-00.png | At one point the astute Miss Cheesecake |
r02-006-01.png | had claimed tax relief on the pur- |
r02-006-02.png | chase of several mink coats which , |
r02-006-03.png | it seemed , were necessary to fur- |
r02-006-04.png | ther her career . Alternatively , it |
r02-006-05.png | was reported , she tearfully claimed |
r02-006-06.png | that the warm coats were heating |
r02-006-07.png | appliances and therefore susceptible |
r02-006-08.png | to a depreciation tax allowance |
r02-006-09.png | as plant and machinery . The |
r02-010-00.png | Between all the interested parties , the final |
r02-010-01.png | agreement had been delayed long enough for |
r02-010-02.png | Miss Cheesecake to spend all the money which |
r02-010-03.png | by rights should have been reserved for her tax . |
r02-010-04.png | Discounting one chinchilla jacket , a Rolls- |
r02-010-05.png | Royce and a Sussex manor house , all |
r02-010-06.png | three of which were in her husband's name , |
r02-010-07.png | she now declared herself bankrupt . |
r02-013-00.png | The train drew into another station |
r02-013-01.png | and Cecil , with a further six stops |
r02-013-02.png | to go , was left almost alone in the |
r02-013-03.png | coach . He fumed as he recol- |
r02-013-04.png | lected the long correspondence he |
r02-013-05.png | had had with the Inland Reve- |
r02-013-06.png | nue in an effort to obtain |
r02-013-07.png | tax relief for a jacket used |
r02-013-08.png | solely in the office . ' If the jacket |
r02-013-09.png | is a condition of your employment , ' |
r02-013-10.png | the Inspector had written , ' it may |
r02-013-11.png | qualify for relief . ' |
r02-038-00.png | ' It 's not mine . I wasn't sitting there . ' She blinked |
r02-038-01.png | disdainfully at him and stepped out . |
r02-038-02.png | It was a new briefcase , and as the train jogged along |
r02-038-03.png | the shiny clasp twinkled invitingly at Cecil . |
r02-038-04.png | He wondered what it contained . Probably the remains |
r02-038-05.png | of someone's lunch or a few secret files . |
r02-038-06.png | He smiled at his own joke . |
r02-054-00.png | It was locked . Eager fingers felt bulky contents and |
r02-054-01.png | when he shook the case there was a rustling thud |
r02-054-02.png | of wads of paper . ' Cor ! ' he muttered aloud , ' there 's |
r02-054-03.png | five thousand at least . ' He felt in his jacket pocket |
r02-054-04.png | and pulled out a key ring . In succession he tried |
r02-054-05.png | his own briefcase key , a suitcase key and a |
r02-054-06.png | device designed to lock typewriters . |
r02-060-00.png | Cecil searched in his pockets once |
r02-060-01.png | more and came up with two |
r02-060-02.png | paper-clips . After a few seconds |
r02-060-03.png | of twisting , he roughly thrust a |
r02-060-04.png | bent wire loop into the lock and |
r02-060-05.png | waggled it around vigorously . |
r02-060-06.png | There was a click and the |
r02-060-07.png | briefcase opened . Cecil thrust an |
r02-060-08.png | eager hand inside , his fingers |
r02-060-09.png | groping after wads of five |
r02-060-10.png | pound notes . |
r02-065-00.png | They closed on a single bundle and , fumbling with |
r02-065-01.png | nervous excitement , he pulled it out . His eye |
r02-065-02.png | rested on a wad of stiff white paper printed on one |
r02-065-03.png | side . ' Old fashioned fivers ! ' he muttered again , and |
r02-065-04.png | tried to recall if they were still legal tender . Surely the |