The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 145: what you’re looking at

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128 | REYNOLDS’ WORKS . ‘“ Well, you sha’n’t have to ask twice. But are we to talk it over now? ”’ | ‘“ Yes, at once, because I want to be getting back home- ward,’ and the woman, who had not sat down, beckoned Chiffin to follow her from the reom. He did so, and they ascended to a private apartment on the upper floor, where they remained together for half an hour in earnest conversation. At the end of this interview Madge Somers took her departure from the Bully Goat, while Chiffin the Cannibal rejoined his companions in the tap-room to partake of the supper for which Lady Bess had paid. CONNIE KS (E(0) m