The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 231: what you’re looking at

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214 THE COURT OF LONDON mere curiosity; you have a motive, and consequently there is one particular secret which you en to know. Give me a clue.” “Did not our conversation yesterday afford you any insight with regard to my business at Geneva? ”’ asked J ew ‘“Candidly speaking,’ replied Maravelli, ‘‘ methought that you were somewhat pressing in your queries in regard to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.” “ Yes, and methought that you were hkewise somewhat mysterious, “ ay say even peculiar, in the answers that you gave me.’ ‘In what manner?” asked Maravelli. “ You surely can recollect what took place between us,”’ rejoined Jocelyn. ‘“ You have spoken, as you informed me, on one occasion to two of the young ladies bearing the name of Owen; you also left upon my mind the impression that you had been within the walls of the yilla; and your look intimated as plainly as the most eloquent looks are able that you could state something if you chose which would soon put to flight all the elevated notions which I might have formed relative to the honour of the Princess of Wales. Tell me, did I read aright what was passing in your mind? ”’ “Yes, to a certain extent,’’ answered Maravelli, but hesi- tatingly and guardedly. “Now, it is my habit,” resumed Jocelyn, “‘ when having any particular clue to follow up through paths enveloped in gloom and beset with doubts and mysteries, to observe the minutest circumstances that may assist my investiga- tion; or, in plainer terms, by putting two and two together IT seldom fail at arriving at an accurate conclusion. Now that you, Doctor Maravelli, are acquainted with some secret connected with the villa where the princess resides, I am convinced. Then, when I find rumour declaring in bold and unmistakable terms that her Royal Highness has been guilty of great profligacies, and even privately given birth to a child, I ask myself, who could confirm this tale if not Doctor Maravelli? ” | Jocelyn looked steadily in the physician’s face as he thus spoke, and again did he perceive that sinister twinkling in the eyes of the Genevese which denoted the heart’s lust for Comicbooks:com |