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Alone with Givanni, Dudley Beaumont appeared to regard himself as master of the situation. Being a man of considerable imagination, he began to see comfortable pictures in his mind's eye. Givanni was sure to surrender at discretion and find the money Beaumont so urgently needed. Of course, the old man was lying when he declared his poverty.
Poor men did not sit down to dinner in evening dress in a room of fine old furniture, and dine off the fat of the land, to the accompaniment of choice wines and cigars of the best. As a connoisseur in such matters, Beaumont had not failed to note the quality of the brandy.