The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 113: what you’re looking at

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96 REYNOLDS’ WORKS knows so much about you, we shall have to fee him oc- casionally. But what think you of letting me make an attempt in some other quarter, as a means of raising the wind? ” “No, never!’ ejaculated Madame Angelique, firmly. ‘That business of the Lathams was enough for me. I never was so frightened in my life.” ‘Well, well,’ said Shadbolt, “just as you please. I must take myself off now; I just dropped in to inquire after your precious health, and tell you how nicely and comfortably I had settled that little affair with Cole- man.” “But what of the Duke of Marchmont?”’ said Madame Angelique. ‘‘ How did you learn — ”’ ‘That he was in so desperate a condition?’ exclaimed Shadbolt. ‘‘ Why, everybody at the West End is talking of it. It seems that he took on so about his brother, he went home in a state bordering on frenzy, and was seized with delirium. That is all I know. Ah! by the bye, there is something else I just now heard at the West End. The very Hindu woman we were talking of —”’ ‘What of her? ’’? demanded Madame Angelique, eagerly. ‘She is dead,’ replied Shadbolt. ‘“ Dead! ” ejaculated the milliner. “Yes, dead. Ah! by the bye,’”’ repeated Shadbolt, “I recollect you once asked me something about that Lady Indora with whom the Hindu woman lived.” ‘‘ Yes, and you told me at the time that she was instigating Coleman to prosecute me.”’ ‘Did I? Well, I dare say it was so,’ observed Shadbolt, carelessly; for though sufficiently sharp, he had not a memory strong enough always to retain the recollection of the numerous perversions of truth or actual falsehoods to which he was prone. “ But about this Hindu woman, this Sagoonah?”’ said Madame Angelique. ‘TI could not exactly learn the rights of it,’’ responded Shadbolt, “‘ but there was a coroner’s inquest on her body to-day, and it appears that it took place quiet enough. I was told, however, that the Hindu woman died from the scratch of a cobra’s fang in a leather case in which she had brought the reptile with her over from India. The verdict CORNIELYOOLKS (E()