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The Castle Inn

CHAPTER X
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This is an unforeseen honour! I did not expect to meet you here.' 'I expected to meet _you_,' my lady answered with meaning.
'Glad to give you the pleasure,' he said, sneering again.

He was evidently in the worst of tempers.' May I ask what has set _you_ travelling ?' he continued.
'Why, naught but your folly!' the viscountess cried.
'Thank you for nothing, my lady,' he said.

'I suppose your spy there'-- and he scowled at the tutor, whose knees shook under him--'has set you on this.

Well, there is time.

I'll settle accounts with him by-and-by.' 'Lord, my dear sir,' Mr.Thomasson cried faintly, 'you don't know your friends!' 'Don't I?
I think I am beginning to find them out,' Mr.Dunborough answered, slapping his boot ominously, 'and my enemies!' At which the tutor trembled afresh.
'Never mind him,' quoth my lady.


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