Penny Blood Serial Fiction — page 217: what you’re looking at

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200 REYNOLDS’ WORKS this may be. But tell me, are you satisfied to leave it to my management? ”’ * Oh, my dear sir, my excellent friend,’ exclaimed Adol- phus, pressing with effusion the hand of the marquis, ‘* how could I be otherwise? ”’ In the evening the marquis gave instructions to the dependents of his household that during his absence they were to regard Miss Paton as their mistress, and obey her instructions in all things. Retiring to his library, he wrote a few letters, one of which was to William Deveril, to the effect that urgent business would take him out of town for a short time; but he promised that he should return in time for that day on which our young hero had been promised a visit from the mysterious woman whom he had saved from drowning in the waters of the Trent. On the following morning, having taken an affectionate leave of Elizabeth, Frank, and Adolphus, the Marquis of Eagledean set out upon his journey into Radnorshire. Gomichbooks (E(0) nm