Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 07

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Words of dark import gave suspicion birth.—POTTER.
Luce . Is the wind there? That makes for me. Isab . Come, I forget a business. Wit without Money .
LORD VARGRAVE'S travelling-carriage was at his door, and he himself was putting on his greatcoat in his library, when Lord Saxingham entered.
What! you are going into the country?
Yes; I wrote you word,—to see Lisle Court.
Ay, true; I had forgot. Somehow or other my memory is not so good as it was. But, let me see, Lisle Court is in ——-shire. Why, you will pass within ten miles of C——-.
C——-! Shall I? I am not much versed in the geography of England,—never learned it at school. As for Poland, Kamschatka, Mexico, Madagascar, or any other place as to which knowledge would be useful , I have every inch of the way at my finger's end. But a propos of C——-, it is the town in which my late uncle made his fortune.
Ah, so it is. I recollect you were to have stood for C——-, but gave it up to Staunch; very handsome in you. Have you any interest there still?