--Sagittarius."
"Homo miserum sed magnum est veritatus et praevalebetur.--Madame
Sagittarius."
CHAPTER XI
MISS MINERVA OPENS HER BOOK OF REVELATION IN A CAB
"Assure the Lord Chancellor that the last boy has been and gone--gone
away, that is, Mr. Ferdinand, and that I pledge my sacred word not to
have another telegram to-day."
"Yes, sir. His lordship desired that you should be informed that,
according to the law regulating public abominations and intolerable
street noises, you was liable to--"
"I know, I know."
"And that, by the Act dealing with gross offences against the
public order and scandalous crimes against the peace of metropolitan
communities, you was amenable--"
"Exactly. Go to his lordship and swear--"
"I couldn't do that so soon again, sir, really. I swore only as short
ago as yesterday, sir, by your express order, but--"
"I mean asseverate to his lordship that the very last boy has knocked
for the very last time."
"It wasn't so much the knocking, sir, his lordship complained of, as
the boys coming to the door meeting the boys going away from it, and
blocking up the pavement, sir, so that no one could get past and--"
"Yes, yes.
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