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luxurious sleeping-chambers, past the waiting valets,
and down the staircase to his night-cab, and drove on
to the House, where he had already been in attendance
from four to eight, and where there was a
protracted though not important after-dinner debate.
Before he went to the body of the House, however, he turned a moment into the library, and wrote a little note, which he sent out to his groom to post.
It was addressed to Ignatius Mathias, and was condensed in one word —
"Act."
END OF VOL. I.
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