Her Faithful Knight — page 310: what you’re looking at

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306 The Uses of Advertisement. pany him to what he called “the wilds of Camberwell,” in order to soften Miss Mongomery’s feelings toward him. : | But Leila was the heroine of the hour. Every copy of the Porcupine had been bought up, and friends who had forgotten her arrived at her rooms by omnibus, by cab, or on foot, to hear at first hand her account of the events which had preceded the “Hammersmith Mystery.” The arrival of Darcy’s cab was the signal for quite a demonstration, and Miss Mongomery’s little servant felt that the most sublime moment of her life had come when she stood upon the doorstep and informed Darcy, in shrill tones which resounded down the street: “My missus won’t receive you, sir. *Tain’t no use your calling, for she wouldn’t demean herself by talking to sich as you?” ‘se “Hang the woman!” muttered the discomforted Darcy as he drove away from Miss Mongomery’s door, followed by audible hisses from certain of that lady’s neighbors and friends. “I had better have recognized her in the train that day. But Phyllis shall pay for this!” Conmicloooks (S@)