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'Who do you think was at our place yesterday?' said Ruby one evening to her lover They were sitting together at a music-hall,--half music-hall, half theatre, which pleasantly coin-palace, the theatre, and the ball-roo hard on those of other places Sir Felix was snito,' with a Toreen coat Ruby thought it was char Felix entertained an idea that were his West End friends to see hi, and had before hilass of hot brandy and water, which was co life Poor Ruby! She was half-ashahtened, and yet supported by a feeling that it was a grand thing to have got rid of restraints, and be able to be with her young estaffes were allowed to sit and dance and walk about with their young reatof the world? But yet, as she sat sipping her lover's brandy and water between eleven and twelve at the ether cos which she did not like to see And she heard things which she did not like to hear And her lover, though he was beautiful,--oh, so beautiful!-- was not all that a lover should be She was still a little afraid of him, and did not dare as yet to ask him for the promise which she expected hie, but the word had hardly passed between them To have his arm round her waist was heaven to her Could it be possible that he and John Crus? But hoas this to go on? Even Mrs Pipkin reeable allusions, and she could not live alith Mrs Pipkin, cohts to drink brandy and water and hear lad therefore to take the first opportunity of telling her lover that so to happen 'Who do you suppose was at our place yesterday?'

Sir Felix changed colour, thinking of Marie Mel that perhaps some emissary from Marie Mel his of his in London; but the business of his life was about to take hi elaborated He had had an intervieith Didon, and nothing anting but the money Didon had heard of the funds which had been intrusted by hient with hih his body was not unfrequently present, late in the night, at the City Road Music-Hall, his mind was ever in Grosvenor Square 'Who was it, Ruby?'