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"Gentlemen," said Mr Hervey, "this is no time for private quarrels;

and, Captain, here is a felloith a note for you It is ent speed"

Hyde glanced at theyou to say what is proper for et Lady

Capel is at the death-point, and to her requests I a hard when he left the club, a h the ht, as it

went along,s, to

watch and to wonder at its pace Lady Capel had been death-stricken

while at whist, and she had not been re her last game She was stretched upon a sofa in the

midst of the deserted tables, yet covered with scattered cards and

half-emptied tea-cups Only Lady Suffolk and a physician ith her;

though the corridor was full of terrified, curious servants, gloating

not unkindly over such a bit of sensation in their prosaic lives

At this hour it was evident that, above everything in the world, the old

lady had loved the wild extravagant grandson, whose debts she had paid

over and over, and whom she had for years alternately petted and