The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 229: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXI | : THE DOCTOR’S SECRET On the following morning Mrs. Roberts took her break- fast in her own room, she being much exhausted with the incidents of the preceding evening, and also on account of the late hour to which she had sat up. Loftus and Doetor Maravelli were accordingly alone together at table, and when the meal was over, our hero said to the physician, ‘““T wish to have some conversation with you on a subject of a very delicate nature and of the utmost importance.’’ “With much pleasure,’ said the doctor, evidently not altogether unprepared for this intimation, especially after the hint which he had given Loftus on the preceding eve- ning, to the effect that if he could be of any service to-him his aid should be cheerfully afforded. ‘Come with me into my sanctum, where we can talk at greater ease, because secure against interruption.’ | He thereupon led the way into that little parlour which has been before described as fitted up in a manner so sombre as to wear quite a funereal appearance. “ Now, Doctor Maravelli,’”’ said Jocelyn, ‘‘ I wish to treat you as a man of the world, and therefore I will at once frankly and candidly inform you that I believe you have it in your power to render me a service for which I am able and willing to pay handsomely. You must not imagine that because I am travelling humbly, unattended, and without any circumstance of pomp or show, that I am limited in my means, for even if my own resources did not enable-me to do what is necessary in the carrying out of my plans, I should not find much difficulty in obtaining from other quarters the supplies needful for the purpose.’’ “ And what is this service that you think I can render 212 \ EGomichooks, Go