One of these, a
lady, evidently a confirmed invalid, and attired in deep mourning, reclined upon
a sort of couch, or easy chair, set on wheels, with her head supported by
cushions, and her feet resting upon a velvet footstool. “Hotel Ritz,” he said mechanically to the coachman. "Good-bye, young man; and good luck. "
"Mother be——!" returned Jack. . . Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's
look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his
hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security
of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and
others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it
gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. ’”
“What did he say?”
“What does any one say to an invitation to dinner point-blank? One tries to
collect one’s wits.
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