The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 137: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XV THE INVALID WE must now return to Frederick Dray, who, as the reader will recollect, was labouring under a severe indisposition when he retired to rest on the preceding night. He had slept with his wonted soundness until a late hour in the morning; and his first feelings, on awaking, were such as to induce him to believe that his illness had passed away. He however resolved to take his breakfast in bed; and Mrs. Brace accord= ingly carried it up to him as soon as she had prepared it. But the moment he placed the tea-cup to his lips, he ex- perienced such a sudden nausea and sickness at the stomach, attended by an equally abrupt access of headache, that he was compelled to decline taking any refreshment; and im- agining that he had either eaten something which had disagreed with him, or that it was a bilious attack under which he was suffering, he consented to allow the milliner to procure some medicine. This he took, and he likewise determined to remain in bed the whole day. The milliner duly recounted to him all that had occurred on the previous evening, — how the extortioners had paid another visit to her house and compelled her to give them a thousand pounds, and how Lord Florimel’s page had called for the purpose of making those arrangements with which the reader is already acquainted, and which Mrs. Brace suc- cinctly explained to her paramour. The visit of the Kinchin- Grand and his two female companions irritated and annoyed Frederick Dray to a much greater degree than the purpose of Rao’s call pleased him on the other hand, inasmuch as the latter business did not promise to be so productive as the former one had proved detrimental to the state of the milli- ner’s finances. His vexation was therefore only mitigated 110 Gomichsooks (E(0)