The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 138: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XIII THE GLASS DOOR Passinc down the long passage into which opened the various apartments allotted to Lord and Lady Sackville, Sir Douglas Huntingdon reached the principal landing, when it suddenly struck him that as he had not been at Carlton House for nearly ten days, he ought to pay his respects to the prince, if only for afew moments. For be it recollected that the baronet was one of George’s boon companions, and his Royal Highness, being excessively touchy and remark- ably sensitive on certain points, would have felt annoyed on learning that Sir Douglas had been to the palace and quitted it again without seeing him. The baronet accordingly asked a page who stood on the principal landing where his Royal Highness was, and how engaged. ‘His Royal Highness, sir,’’ was the reply, ‘ not many minutes since passed this way along the passage, toward the saloon at the end, and I believe that his Royal Highness is at this moment alone there.’’ “Then I will seek him in that apartment,” said the baronet; and, turning upon his heel, he proceeded along the passage. The page offered no further remark, much less any remon- strance, as he knew that Sir Douglas was not only most intimate with the prince, but enjoyed, so to speak, the “run of the palace.”’ At the end of the long passage was the antechamber with the glass door at which Sir Douglas and Venetia had first exchanged tender looks, on that special occasion when the prince diverted himself with certain young and nobly born ladies in the magnificent saloon with which that glass door communicated. Traversing the antechamber, the baronet 117 CoOnniclooolkks (C(O)