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Wood trembled. The gentleman
catched him i' th' fact, and we shut him up for safety i' that pris'n. ”
So they went this time to the Rococo, in Germain Street, and up-stairs to a
landing upon which stood a bald-headed waiter with whiskers like a French
admiral and discretion beyond all limits in his manner. Was
there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully
furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were
they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a
rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going
astray. ‘A man
who is false, who steals papers, who has a plot to take another’s name, who lies
to the Mother Abbess and to me, and above all this—’ her voice near to breaking
‘—one who is French. "
"What for?" demanded the turnkey. ‘If Major Alderley should happen to call, you may admit him also. He may not know you’re in England, but if he has the
smallest knowledge of your character, he must surely be expecting you.
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