n dear
Paris, or in dearer Vienna, that would have not hindered her from
receiving the visit; but in pigheaded London this could not be done;
and, therefore, when she had duly scrutinized Captain Boodle's card, and
had learned from the servant that Captain Boodle desired to see herself
on very particular business, she made an appointment with him for the
following day.

On the following day at the same hour Doodles came and was shown up into
her room. He had scrupulously avoided any smartness of apparel,
calculating that a Newmarket costume would be, of all dresses, the most
efficacious in filling her with an idea of his smartness; whereas Archie
had probably injured himself much by his polished leather boots, and
general newness of clothing. Doodles, therefore, wore a cut-away coat, a
colored shirt with a fogle round his neck, old brown trousers that
fitted very tightly round his legs, and was careful to take no gloves
with him. He was a man with a small, bullet head, who wore his hair cut
very short, and had no other beard than a slight appendage on his lower
chin. He certainly did possess a considerable look of smartness, and
when he would knit his brows and nod his head, some men were apt to
think that it was not easy to get on the soft side of him.

Sophie on this occasion was not arrayed with that becoming negligence
which had graced her appearance when Captain Clavering had called. She
knew that a visitor was coming, and the questionably white wrapper had
been exchanged for an ordinary dress. This was regretted, rather than
otherwise, by Captain Boodle, who had received from Archie a description
of the lady's appearance, and who had been anxious to see the spy in her
proper and peculiar habiliments. It must be remembered that Sophie knew
nothing of her present visitor, and was altogether unaware that he was
in any way connected with Captain Clavering.

"You are Captain Boddle," she said, looking hard at Doodles as he bowed
to her on entering the room.

"Captain Boodle, ma'am; at your service."

"Oh, Captain Bood-dle; it is English name, I suppose?"

"Certainly, ma'am, certainly. Altogether English, I believe. Our Boodles
come out of Warwickshire; small property near Leamington--doosed small,
I'm sorry to say."

She looked at him very hard, and was altogether unable to discover what
was the nature or probable mode of life of the young man before her. She
had lived much in England, and had known Englishmen