Penny Blood Serial Fiction — page 108: what you’re looking at

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THE NOBLEMAN AND THE LAWYER 91 * Majesty’s Ministers have entrusted me with a special mission to Vienna.”’ ‘‘ And when do you propose to leave? ’’ asked Saxondale, making a slight grimace at the thought of accompanying his guardian. ‘“In three days,” returned Lord Petersfield, ‘‘ But if you really purpose to go with me, you must make up your mind to-morrow.”’ | ‘It’s made up at once.’ I will go,” exclaimed Edmund, ‘and there’s my hand upon it.” Lord Petersfield just took the tips of Edmund’s fingers in a cold grasp, and began to give him some advice, which the young nobleman did not think it worth while to wait for, and bidding both his lordship and Mr. Malton good-bye, he quitted the room. Gomicdoo SS (EO)