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The Castle Inn

CHAPTER XIII
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Then in a tone of exultation she continued, 'Ah! here he is again, as I thought! And come round by the street to mask the matter! He has down beside her again.

Oh, he is limed, he is limed!' my lady continued, as she searched for her spying-glass, that she might miss no wit of the love-making.
The tutor was all complacence.

'It proves that your ladyship's stratagem,' he said, 'was to the point last night.' 'Oh, Dunborough will live to thank me for that!' she answered.
'Gadzooks, he will! It is first come first served with these madams.
This will open his eyes if anything will.' 'Still--it is to be hoped she will leave before he returns,' Mr.
Thomasson said, with a slight shiver of anticipation.

He knew Mr.
Dunborough's temper.
'Maybe,' my lady answered.

'But even if she does not--' There she broke of, and stood peering through the window.


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