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Updated: June 27, 2025
Customers coming in at the moment to occupy the house-agent's attention, Wilding went down the street, and entering a bookseller's shop, asked if he could be informed of the Reverend John Harker's present address. The bookseller looked unaffectedly shocked and astonished, and made no answer. Wilding repeated his question.
"I might give her a message," the good lady suggested "just to say you are glad to hear she is behaving so well." "Will you give her this?" Amelius asked. He took from his pocket a little photograph of the cottage, which he had noticed on the house-agent's desk, and had taken away with him.
Amelius instantly gave her a shilling, and said, "I take it on the spot." The wondering woman referred him to the house-agent's address, and kept at a safe distance from the excitable stranger as she let him out. In less than another hour, Amelius had taken the cottage, and had returned to the hotel with a new interest in life and a new surprise for Rufus.
From the house-agent's shop he turned into the chemist's, for a tonic a foolish proceeding, for he had received bracing enough in the blow he had just dealt himself, but he had been cogitating on tonics recently, imagining certain valiant effects of them, with visions of a former careless happiness that they were likely to restore.
Rupert's face had been growing from stage to stage of ferocious irony, and he answered: "I was saying that I wondered whether you would mind our strolling along with you to this house-agent's." The visitor swung his stick with a sudden whirling violence. "Oh, in God's name, come to my house-agent's! Come to my bedroom. Look under my bed. Examine my dust-bin. Come along!"
She was excited: she treated Arthur Abner's closed-volume reticence as a corroboration of the house-agent's report, and hearing Weyburn speak of his anxiety to see the earl immediately, in order to get release from his duties, proposed a seat in her carriage; for down Steignton way she meant to go, if only as excuse for a view of the old place.
From the house-agent's shop he turned into the chemist's, for a tonic a foolish proceeding, for he had received bracing enough in the blow he had just dealt himself, but he had been cogitating on tonics recently, imagining certain valiant effects of them, with visions of a former careless happiness that they were likely to restore.
Then you are not Herbert's friend after all?" "I have made a beginning. But in fact, I made his acquaintance at Vine Street just now. Trewlove that's my scoundrel of a butler has been making up to him under my name. They met at the house-agent's, probably. The rogue models himself upon me: but when it comes to letting my house By the way, have you paid him by cheque?" "I paid the agent.
All that came of his compliance was, his discovery that the empty house was left in charge of the old woman, that Miss Wade was gone, that the waifs and strays of furniture were gone, and that the old woman would accept any number of half-crowns and thank the donor kindly, but had no information whatever to exchange for those coins, beyond constantly offering for perusal a memorandum relative to fixtures, which the house-agent's young man had left in the hall.
On reaching Lady Dasher's house, however, the house-agent's rumour was, to my great distress, confirmed; and, that in the most authoritative manner. It must be true then, in spite of Miss Pimpernell's denial! My lady was in one of her most morbid and melancholy moods, too, which did not help to mend matters.
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