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A few minutes' consideration satisfied me that the police were concerned in Bubbleton's movements, and, knowing at once that no danger was to be apprehended from such a source, were merely holding him up for some occasion when they could make use of him to found some charge against the British Government, a manoeuvre constantly employed, and always successful with the Parisians, wherever an explanation became necessary in the public papers.
Without being able to say why, I felt piqued and annoyed at the tone of Bubbleton's remarks, which, coming from one of his narrow intelligence on ordinary topics, worried me only the more.
As I was disposed to place more reliance on Miss Bubbleton's statements than those of her imaginative brother, I agreed to his proposal to pay her a visit; and accordingly we set out together for the Rue Neuve des Capucines. Lieutenant-General Bubbleton's quarters were by no means of that imposing character which befitted his rank in the British army.
We belong to the latter category, and shall only get into a scrape by poking our heads where they have no business to be." "Why, a few moments since you were full of state secrets, and plots, and secret treaties, and Heaven knows what besides!" "To be sure I was. And for whose interest, man, for whose sake? George Frederick Augustus Bubbleton's. Ay, no doubt of it.
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