By the time Stephen has finished with them they will all be as meek aslambs and as harmonious as blackbirds. Stephen Black and the gentleman with the thistle-down hair were seated inthe upper room of Mr Wharton's coffee-house in Oxford-street where thePeep-O'Day-Boys met. Neither Mr nor Mrs Strange had ever seen Lady Pole. He peered up the road.
He turned back to thefire. After this revelation the Harley-street servants watched Stephen out of thecorners of their eyes and agreed among themselves that nothing was morelikely. The truth was he was beginning to feeldecidedly uncomfortable. Or a wilderness.
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