The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 388: what you’re looking at

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FURTHER UNRAVELMENT O71 we will go together and see these guilty beings — I hope for the last time.’’ Mr. Hawkshaw expressed his readiness to accompany the marquis, and indeed to yield to his views in every particular. While refreshments were served up to the squire, Lord Eagledean sought the marchioness in order to inform her that business of a somewhat urgent nature, in which his friend Hawkshaw was concerned, was about to take him to London, and that he should not probably return until the following day. Meanwhile the consultation between Doctor Ferney and the Edenbridge surgeon had terminated; the physician had recommended the mode of treatment which was the best for adoption in respect to the invalid, and he was now about to take his departure. As a matter of course, the marquis offered him a seat in his own carriage to the railway-station, which Doctor Ferney accepted. The physi- cian thus became a fellow traveller with Lord Hagledean and Mr. Hawkshaw to London, for when the station was reached, the marquis could not possibly express a cesire to separate from Doctor Ferney’s society in the train, though in his heart he would much rather have travelled alone with Mr. Hawkshaw. In about an hour and a half the metropolis was reached, and as they were all three going to the West Kind, they took a vehicle at the terminus. The conversation had all the while been upon indifferent topics, so that Ferney had not the slightest idea whither his two travelling-com- panions were actually bound. Conduit Street, where the physician dwelt, was all in the way toward Park Lane. The driver of the vehicle therefore received orders first of all to proceed to Doctor Ferney’s dwelling. In due time this destination was reached, and the physician alighted at his own door. As he was about to take leave, it occurred to him that having been most liberally treated by the mar- quis in respect to the amount of the fee placed in his hand immediately after the consultation at Edenbridge Park, he was bound, for courtesy’s sake, to offer some little apology for what might appear a most rude neglect on his part in respect to a certain matter, but which he had his own good reasons for having hitherto so long remained silent upon. He was standing on the curbstone, looking into the vehicle where the marquis and Hawkshaw remained seated. Hands had been shaken, and farewells said, when that Gomicdoo <S (S(O)