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Chapter Three
Captain Hilary Roding listened with only half an ear to the long-winded report
being given by Sergeant Trodger, his idle gaze wandering over the congested
traffic of Piccadilly and the many pedestrians weaving a hazardous path through
it. This gate, called Newgate, "as being latelier builded
than the rest," continued, for upwards of three hundred years, to be used as a
place of imprisonment for felons and trespassers; at the end of which time,
having grown old, ruinous, and "horribly loathsome," it was rebuilt and enlarged
by the executors of the renowned Sir Richard Whittington, the Lord Mayor of
London: whence it afterwards obtained amongst a certain class of students,
whose examinations were conducted with some strictness at the Old Bailey, and
their highest degrees taken at Hyde-park-corner, the appellation of Whittington's
College, or, more briefly, the Whit. ‘Yes, miss. But it don't much matter—though he's a devilish shrewd fellow, and might have
helped me out of a difficulty, had any occurred. ‘Léonore, then?’ She shook her
head animatedly, enjoying his attention. ’
‘Ah, that was an affair altogether different,’ she explained and fluttered her
long lashes at him. Fine woman, Lady
Trafford—a little on the wane though. Spurlock slumped in his chair, weak and empty. ”
“On the contrary,” Anna whispered quietly, “we met in a small boarding-house
where I was stopping. "Sir Rowland must be gone.
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