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In the train the purchaser of the _Lorna Doone_ began to have misgivings. He had agreed to pay seven hundred pounds for the boat, and now, away from the small-yacht atmosphere of Poole, and beyond the magnetism of Hackett, the amount seemed enormous and out of all proportion to the size of the purchase.
Seven hundred pounds, and that was only the start, the first day's work, so to speak. Almost a third of the money at his disposal gone at one blow. What would Behrens say?