The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 112: what you’re looking at

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MADAME ANGELIQUE AGAIN 95. the very Mr. Coleman concerning whom you had been frightening me so —’ ‘Yes, the arrest took place at his ioe! said Shadbolt, speaking with his mouth full of cake, “ and the duke him- self was in the place at the time. There was a Hindu woman “T know it,’’ interrupted Madame Angelique, curtly. ‘“ When the duke called upon me after you left the villa, yesterday, I told him all you had been saying to me.” . ‘Well, and what then?’ asked Shadbolt, with a mo- mentary eagerness. “Why, to speak plainly,’’ responded the Frenchwoman, “the duke was not much inclined to believe that Cole- man was a man who would accept a bribe of two hundred suineas to desist from prosecuting me. However, he said he would go and see Mr. Coleman on my behalf; and, as it must have happened, the duke’s brother was there at the very same moment. So the inspector said in the ac- count of the capture which he gave to the magistrate, and which is in the newspaper.”’ “ But the duke did not come back to you, eh?” ob- served Mr. Shadbolt. ‘‘ Well, all I can tell you is that if you hadn’t given me that little douceur of two hundred guineas to slip into Coleman’s hand — ”’ ‘“T hope it is all right, and that you have not been de- ceiving me?’”’ said Madame Angelique, looking very hard at Mr. Shadbolt. “IT deceive you?” he exclaimed. ‘‘ What, honest Ike Shadbolt deceive his dear and intimate friend, the amiable and excellent Madame Angelique? Not I indeed! Look at me. Do I seem a man capable of playing such a dirty trick? ”’ ‘““T hope not,’’ responded the Frenchwoman, “and I hope likewise that everything is now safe in that quarter.”’ The reader will have no doubt comprehended that the unprincipled Shadbolt had been playing a trick by work- ing on Madame Angelique’s fears, in order to obtain the money of which he stood in need, for his extravagances were unlimited, and he had eaken: to gambling. ‘You see, my dear friend,’”’ he continued, refilling his glass, and helping himself to another slice of cake, “ all those lawyer fellows are open to bribes, and as Edleman GOmiilGaooks (S©)