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She gave the key to the knight, and after one or two attempts the gate swung open. Whilst he was fumbling at the lock she stood looking about her, and presently caught sight of Godfrey's slim figure crouched against the railings in the deepest of the shadows. "There is someone there, Lord Charles," she said. "Is there?" he answered, indifferently. "A cab-tout or a beggar, I expect.
The navvy, the scaffolder, the costermonger, the cab-tout innumerable would be the varieties of texture, of fold, of knot, observed in the ranks of unskilled labour.
I also continued to address meetings, receive deputations, and generally solicit patronage in a way that would have made a cab-tout blush for shame. As a recreation I kicked off at football matches and laid foundation-stones. The most important function in which I took part was the opening of the new wing of the Municipal Library.
I followed on foot, escaping the notice of the police from the fact, made only too natural by Fortune's cursed spite, that under the toga-like simplicity of Montague Tigg's costume these minions merely guessed at a cab-tout. Well, David, he led me a long chase.
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