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Sir Eustace did not go straight back to the Albany, but, calling a hansom, drove down to his club.
"Well," he thought to himself, "I have played a good many curious parts in my time, but I never had to do with anything like this before. I only hope George is not much cut up. His eyes ought to be opened now. What a woman -- " but we will not repeat Sir Eustace's comments upon the lady to whom he was nominally half engaged.