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Mr. Wogan's title of Hilton was now, thanks to the _Flying Post_, as familiar as his name; he refused both the one and the other to the servant, and was admitted to Rose Townley without any formalities. Her eyes flashed as they remarked his livery, but she was not in any concern about Mr. Wogan, and asked him no questions. She rose with the utmost coldness, did not give him her hand, and only the bare mockery of a bow, as though her indignation against Mr. Kelly was so complete that it must needs embrace his friend.
'I thought that he would have plucked up enough courage to come himself,' said she, with a contemptuous shrug of the shoulders.