BY MISS PARDOE, "THE AUTHOR OF LIFE OF MARIE DE MEDICIS," &c. HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, SUCCESSORS TO HENRY COLBURN, 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1854. 249. X. 421. REGINALD LYLE. CHAPTER I. HOLBORN. "AT last!" murmured an aged, sallow, and ill-dressed traveller, as, with a fastdiousness which appeared altogether supererogatory to the dingy but dignified waiter, and the ringletted chambermaid of a secondrate hotel in Holborn, after having personally ascertained the safe disposal of his by no means superabundant luggage in his destined bedchamber, he flung himself down, wearied VOL. I. B |