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CHECKMATE. 28a<br />

managing matters. He has borrowed all his<br />

movables from the broker's round the cor-<br />

ner, and means to do the thing handsomely.<br />

T<strong>her</strong>e's a Utrecht velvet dining-room suite<br />

gone in, and. a set <strong>of</strong> chintz covered chairs,<br />

besides half-a-dozen tables, <strong>of</strong> various sizes,<br />

and a bedstead this afternoon. I've had<br />

to lend Othello a pillow before now. But<br />

this new man seems a man <strong>of</strong> substance.<br />

Will you come ? By-the-bye, how tall did<br />

you say Mrs. Thornton was ?"<br />

" The middle height, and rat<strong>her</strong> thin.<br />

What an interest you have in <strong>her</strong> personal<br />

appearance !"<br />

" In case I should come across <strong>her</strong>, I<br />

should like to be able to recognize the lady.<br />

I only hope it won't be too late for Mr.<br />

Dale's interests."<br />

They were now in the street. The<br />

theatre was an insignificant building, gene-<br />

rally in a chronic state <strong>of</strong> embarrassment<br />

and decay. Dissent and the Low Church

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