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Rh She must make her appearance on this day, and look well upon it also, or she would give occasion to a thousand reports connected with the appearance of the strange man, and the circumstance of the foreign gentleman flying through the streets with bank-notes in his hand. How far the words of either the enemy or the friend were heard by those in the neighbouring stands she knew not, but she could not doubt that Lady Penrhyn guessed the fact pretty nearly, and would henceforward hold her in fetters as the price of keeping it; but the great object of dread was the Duchess, to whom she had herself seen the creature approach

and who could say how far he had revealed his terrific mission? Whilst sipping her chocolate, the Count was announced, and Fanchette saw with surprise her lady’s countenance suffused with the same sort of blush she had observed spread over the face of the fair Louisa, when the name of Charles Penrhyn was abruptly mentioned. "How is this?" said the penetrating Frenchwoman, "is the old lady caught at last? I shall make a pretty penny out of her if that is the case; she must pay for making up, I can tell her." With very little circumlocution, the Count proceeded to tell Lady Anne, that a second writ had been out against her, the evils of which he had most happily averted, and he had himself seen the man