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CHAPTER IX
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'Why couldn't you let us go to the theatre ?' Her brother vouchsafed no reply, but withdrew from the room, and almost immediately left the house.

He walked half a mile with his eyes turned to the ground, then noticed a hansom which was passing empty, and had himself driven to Hoxton.

He alighted near the Britannia Theatre, and thence made his way by foul streets to a public-house called the 'Warwick Castle.' Only two customers occupied the bar; the landlord stood in his shirt-sleeves, with arms crossed, musing.

At the sight of Mutimer he brightened up, and extended his hand.
'How d'you do; how d'you do, sir ?' he exclaimed.

'Glad to see you.' The shake of the hands was a tribute to old times, the 'sir' was a recognition of changed circumstances.


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