The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 38: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER Ill THE BILLS OF EXCHANGE At about a quarter-past eight o’clock Malpas and Mr. Emmerson entered Soho Square, and proceeded direct to the establishment of Mrs. Gale, who, previously informed by the colonel of the intended visit, was prepared to receive them. In fact, the colonel had been with her in the morning; and having found means to pay her the five hundred guineas owing to her, together with a handsome douceur by want of - interest, he once more stood in her good books. For Mrs. Gale never cared what other people might think or say of a person, so long as she had reason to be satisfied with his conduct. The colonel had told her in the morning exactly what he wished to be done in the evening, and Mrs.Gale had made arrangements accordingly. She now therefore conducted Malpas and Emmerson up into a suite of rooms which we must describe. First, there was a handsome parlour, from which a little cabinet opened at the side with a glass door. This glass door had green blinds within, so that no one could see into it from the parlour; whereas a person stationed in that cabinet could easily observe, as he might also overhear, everything that took place in the parlour. Beyond the parlour itself there was a bedchamber, with a dressing-room adjoining. Such was the suite to which Mrs. Gale conducted the colonel and the bill-broker; and the moment she had retired, ‘Emmerson ensconced himself in the cabinet, taking the key with him and locking the door inside. A few minutes afterward Mrs. Gale reappeared, introduc- ing the Countess of Curzon, whom she ceremoniously assisted to lay aside her cloak and bonnet. The moment that the 21 CONNICMOOOKS.€©