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He faltered forth assurances of his ignorance , and hastened to bury his resentment in the retirement of a remote sofa . Vargrave , who had forgotten the significant question of Mr. Onslow , renewed in a whisper his conversation with that gentleman relative to the meditated investment , while Mr. and Mrs. Tiddy sang `` Come dwell with me ; '' and Onslow was so pleased with his new acquaintance , that he volunteered to make a fourth in Lumley 's carriage the next morning , and accompany him to Lisle Court . This settled , the party soon afterwards broke up . At midnight Lord Vargrave was fast asleep ; and Mr. Howard , tossing restlessly to and fro on his melancholy couch , was revolving all the hardships that await a native of St. James 's , who ventures forth among -- `` The Anthropophagi , and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders ! '' BUT how were these doubts to be changed into absolute certainty ? EDGAR HUNTLEY . THE next morning , while it was yet dark , Lord Vargrave 's carriage picked up Mr. Onslow at the door of a large old-fashioned house , at the entrance of the manufacturing town of ----- .