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I could not afford to quarrel with him, but I could keep my dignity. "That is my affair, Mr. Chiffinch. However there is the fact. I am come to town for this very purpose to beg for something to do. Will His Majesty see me?" He looked at me for an instant; then he thought better, I think, of any further rallying. "Why I am sure he will. But it will not be for a few days, yet.

"You mistake verb for noun-substantive," replied his lordship; "I said rob and kidnap a man may do either once and away without being professional." "But not without spilling a little foolish noble blood, or some such red-coloured gear," said Chiffinch, starting up.

While he sipped his cup of chocolate, the King looked round the apartment, and observing Fenella, Peveril, and the musician, who remained standing beside a large Indian screen, he continued, addressing Mistress Chiffinch, though with polite indifference, "I sent you the fiddles this morning or rather the flute Empson, and a fairy elf whom I met in the Park, who dances divinely.

Chiffinch had told me just now, as an additional security, after nightfall stepped out from his place and challenged me. I had had the word, of course, as I came in; and I gave it him, and he was contented. But I was not. Here, thought I, is my opportunity. "Here," said I, "can you tell me where Mistress Dorothy Jermyn is lodged?"

I was about to say he was one of His Majesty's closest friends and evil geniuses; but I stopped. There was no need. The page smiled. "Yes," he said. "Well; Mr. Mallock? If you can find out anything " "And the Duke too!" I said. "Well; I was right, was I not?" "His Grace will come to some disaster, I think," said Mr. Chiffinch very tranquilly.

"Your Grace," said Chiffinch "your Grace your Grace ought to remember that I told you Christian's secret; that the Countess of Derby was come up." "And you think the one point of treachery may balance for the other? But no. I must have a better atonement. Be assured I will blow your brains out, ere you leave this carriage, unless you tell me the truth of this message from Court."

It was a pretty small room, and there were no beds in it; it had presses round the walls: a coal fire burned in the hearth in a brazier, and a round table was in the midst, lit by a single candle, and near the candle stood a heap of surgical instruments and a roll of bandages. Two of them I did not know; but the third was Mr. Chiffinch. They all three turned when I came in, and stared at me.

The impertinence and vulgarity of Empson, which was permitted to him as an unrivalled performer upon his instrument, were exhausting themselves at the expense of all other musical professors, and Mrs. Chiffinch was listening with careless indifference, when some one was heard speaking loudly, and with animation, in the inner apartment.

At this moment, a figure enveloped in a cloak darted from behind a door, and extinguishing the lamp which Chiffinch had taken from the table, seized him with a powerful grasp. All was now buried in darkness, and while Leonard Holt was hesitating what to do, he heard a voice, which he knew to be that of Pillichody, whisper in his ear, "Come with me I will secure your retreat. Quick! quick!"

Presently, however, we heard a man's steps come along the paved walk, and then a knocking at the door. James went out to see who was there; and came back immediately saying that it was a courier with a letter for me. My conscience smote me a little, for I had delayed more than a week now from answering Mr. Chiffinch: and, sure enough, when I went out, the man was come from him.