The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 77: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER V A PLOT WE must now once more direct the reader’s attention to the interior of Madame Angelique’s establishment; and if we peep into the splendidly furnished apartment whence there was the mirror-contrived communication with the tailor’s house next door, we shall find Lettice with the German and French girls, sitting together. Lettice Rodney therefore — disregarding Mr. Redcliffe’s advice — had returned to that abode of splendid infamy. It was noon on the day following that on which Christian called at Mivart’s Hotel, and thus Lettice had been back exactly one week. She had told Madame Angelique every- thing that had occurred, but vainly had she endeavoured to recollect who the individual could be who had extorted from her the revelation of the whole proceedings. It will be remembered that she fancied his voice was not unfamiliar to her, but that she had totally failed to obtain a glimpse of his countenance in the darkness of the night, so that the scene with him had ended by leaving her still in complete ignorance of who he was. Madame Angelique was much troubled, for she could not help thinking that the same indi- vidual who had thus behaved toward Lettice Rodney had spirited away Eveleen O’Brien. Not for an instant, however, did her suspicions rest on Mr. Redcliffe, for he had paid her bounteously at the time, and the girls had assured her that he had entered with spirit into the festivities of that particu- lar evening. As for the Duke of Marchmont, Madame Angelique did not dread his anger on Lettice’s account, for, under all the circumstances, she did not consider that any blame could attach itself to the young woman who, when menaced with the law, and finding the plot more or less 61 CONMIC DOO S (C(O) mM