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"Hullo! No! -- Yes! -- upon my soul, it is Jacob! Why, Delafield, my dear fellow, how are you?"
So saying -- on a February evening a good many years ago -- an elderly gentleman in evening dress flung himself out of his cab, which had just stopped before a house in Bruton Street, and hastily went to meet a young man who was at the same moment stepping out of another hansom a little farther down the pavement.