Penny Blood Serial Fiction — page 179: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XIV A CHANGE OF ABODE Lapy Buss, having brought her narrative down to the point at which the preceding chapter concluded, went on to relate how she had one day encountered the Marquis of Villebelle, and how she had promised to deliver up to him the various papers proving their marriage. The reader will recollect that in the earlier portion of this tale, Lady Bess charged a certain Tony Wilkins, at Solomon Patch’s house at Agar Town, to present a sealed packet to a gentleman whom he would meet at King’s Cross. That gentleman was the Marquis of Villebelle, and that packet contained the documents she had volunteered to give up. She then proceeded to describe how, in company with Chiffin the Cannibal, she had waylaid Messrs. Marlow and ‘Malton, how she had fled to Dover, and how one of the earrier- pigeons which Kate Marshall had given her proved the means of extricating her from that dilemma. Then she described how, some little time afterward, she had met her brother Frank in the street, and how overjoyed as well as amazed she was to find that he was in the land of the living. She related everything Frank himself had told her in respect to his own history after he had quitted the school at South- ampton, — how he had obtained a situation at court, how he had there recognized Lord Petersfield, and the two ladies whom he had twice seen in the companionship of her whom he believed to be his mother, how he had been abruptly but honourably removed from his situation in the royal household, and how, through Lord Petersfield, he had ob- tained another place, namely, that in Lady Saxondale’s service. Lady Bess likewise described without reserve how she had 162 4 Gomicbooks (E(0)