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My Lady Ludlow

CHAPTER V
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I suppose I must e'en help you, for if I don't, another will.' "I did not mind what he said, so that he would assist me.

I was pretty sure that she was in a state to require opiates; and I had not forgotten Christopher Sly, you may be sure, so I told him what I had in my head.
That in the dead of night--the quiet time in the streets,--she should be carried in a hospital litter, softly and warmly covered over, from the Leicester Square lodging-house to rooms that I would have in perfect readiness for her.

As I planned, so it was done.

I let Clement know, by a note, of my design.

I had all prepared at home, and we walked about my house as though shod with velvet, while the porter watched at the open door.


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