Excerpt from His Grace, Vol. 2 of 2 Possibly she may have been neither the one nor the other when we had finished our meal and when she managed to give her chaperon the slip. At least, when I say that she gave her chaperon the slip, I only mean that she did a thing which her chaperon had not courage or presence Of mind enough to forbid, not that she stooped to any subterfuge. She announced, without the slightest hesitation, that she was going round to the stables with the Duke, who wanted to have a look at his horses; and, as Mr Gas coigne presently saw fit to follow the couple. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.