The widow advancing, put on her spectacles, and, looking up close at
Lord Colambre's face--'Then it's a wonder I didn't know the family
likeness.'
Lord Colambre now recollecting that he still wore the old greatcoat,
threw it off.
'Oh, bless him! Then now I'd know him anywhere. I'm willing to die now,
for we'll all be happy.'
'My lord, since it is so--my lord, may I ask you,' said Mr. Garraghty,
now sufficiently recovered to be able to articulate, but scarcely to
express his ideas; 'if what your lordship hinted just now--'
'I hinted nothing, sir; I spoke plainly.'
'I beg pardon, my lord,' said old Nick;--'respecting vice, was levelled
at me; because, if it was, my lord,' trying to stand erect; 'let me tell
your lordship, if I could think it was--'
'If it did not hit you, sir, no matter at whom it was levelled.'
'And let me ask, my lord, if I may presume, whether, in what you
suggested by the word fraud, your lordship had any particular meaning?'
said St. Dennis.
'A very particular meaning, sir,--feel in your pocket for the key of
this widow's house, and deliver it to her.'
'Oh, if that's all the meaning, with all the pleasure in life.
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