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`` You have told me that I have more than eight hundred thousand a year . It is for charity . The people at Muro have no hospital . I shall be glad if you will give it to me before four o'clock ; I wish to send it at once . '' Macomer had barely a thousand francs in the house , and he knew that there was not a man of business in Naples who would have lent him half the little sum for which Veronica was asking . `` I shall certainly not give you money for any such absurd purpose , '' said Gregorio , with sudden , assumed sternness . Veronica raised her eyes in quiet astonishment , offended , but not disconcerted .