The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 296: what you’re looking at

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RESPECTABILITY 269 “‘ The fact is,’ said the duke, after he had expressed his thanks to the ex-milliner for all her kindness, as well as for the prudential caution which she had used in respect to his name, “I took out my purse to give that ruffian relief. In the twinkling of an eye did he knock me from my horse. I remembered nothing more until I found myself seated by your side in the carriage. My purse, my watch, my rings are gone.”’ ‘“‘T felt assured you had been robbed,” said Madame An- gelique, “ when in the carriage I noticed that there was not any jewelry about your person. But tell me, my lord, was there not something strange about that man, that villainous- looking Lascar? ”’ ‘There might be,” said the duke, drily. ‘‘ You have a beautiful place here. I intended to come and call upon you. I did not exactly know where your habitation was situated, and little did I suspect Just now that I was passing my old friend Madame Angelique’s carriage,’’ added his Grace, with a familiar smile. The ex-milliner saw that the duke did not wish to be ques- tioned in respect to the Lascar, and she therefore said not another word upon the subject. There were other topics which she also avoided, although she might have touched upon them, for the presence of the duke had conjured them up to her memory. She might have intimated her suspicion that he was not altogether a stranger to the murderous at- tempt on the life of Sagoonah at Bayswater, but Madame Angelique beheld no utility in discussing such matters; and moreover she had hoped, when retiring from her own equivocal avocations, that she might entirely wash her hands of all the perilous intrigues and machinations into which she had at one time been led by the Duke of March- mont. “ T do not wish this little affair to become bruited abroad,”’ said his Grace, thus alluding to his adventure with the fero- cious Lasear. ‘It is troublesome to have the police set to work, and all that sort of thing.”’ ‘“ Nothing need transpire,’”’ answered Madame Angelique, “TI will tell my domestics that you are a Mr. Cavendish, or Fitzherbert, or some other fashionable name, and that as you are immediately going on the Continent, you do not think it worth while to delay your departure for the purpose EGOMINIGIOOKS (CO)