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Mr. Adolphus Swann spent a very agreeable afternoon after his interview / with Nathan Smith in refusing to satisfy what he termed the idle / curiosity of his partner. The secret of Captain Nugent's whereabouts, / he declared, was not to be told to everybody, but was to be confided by a / man of insinuating address and appearance -- here he looked at himself in a / hand-glass -- to Miss Nugent. To be broken to her by a man with no / ulterior motives for his visit; a man in the prime of life, but not too / old for a little tender sympathy.
"I had hoped to have gone this afternoon," he said, with a glance at the / clock; "but I'm afraid I can't get away. Have you got much to do, / Hardy?"