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WE DESCEND INTO A STEAMER'S ENGINE-ROOM.
Fleetwood had dropped his friend Lord Feltre at Ancona; his good fortune was to be alone when the clang of bells rang through his head in the reading of Gower's lines.

Other letters were opened: from the Countess Livia, from Lady Arpington, from Captain Kirby-Levellier.

There was one from his lawyers, informing him of their receipt of a communication dated South Wales, December 11th, and signed Owain Wythan; to the effect, that the birth of a son to the Earl of Fleetwood was registered on the day of the date, with a copy of the document forwarded.
Livia scornfully stated the tattling world's 'latest.' The captain was as brief, in ordinary words, whose quick run to the stop could be taken for a challenge of the eye.

It stamped the adversary's frown on Fleetwood reading.