Skirting the noble
gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,)
the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype,
in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best
buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry,
especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect
of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place,
by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London. A young lad—Roding took him for a footman, or a groom by the neat black
garb—was halted some paces away from Valade, his hat in his hand as he made
pretence of fanning himself. Michelle ate fast, and Lucy followed her lead,
shoveling mashed potatoes and salmon down her gullet in
a passionless frenzy. Wood, regarding her husband with
a glance of vindictive triumph.
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