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In the early sixties the nocturnal calm of West wick Square was seldom disturbed by the rude rattle of hansom cabs. The solid mansions, now let in floors and apartments to third-rate actors, musicians, and others of less reputable trades, were in those days occupied by families of some fashion, a few legal luminaries, county people, even a sprinkling of nobility. There are several dingy streets and squares in Pimlico which, if not quite fashionable, were, at least, highly respectable in the sixties. Now the neighbourhood, although central, has lost its reputation beyond hope of redemption. It has a past. The pillars of the solid-looking porticoes, beneath which, in the Leytons' time, fat footmen blossomed like lilies of the field, are now peeling in premature decay the floral decorations of the balconies have long vanished; the area railings have seen no paint for a score of years; the very cats have changed from sleek tabbies and ambrosial Persians to half starved gingers and dissipated black tylers.
But Miss Leyton was not thinking of the social status of Westwick Square as she sat waiting for her favourite brother. She was pondering over Beveral Leyton's pecuniary embarrassments. In her hand she held a letter, addressed in scratchy caligraphy to her father, Sir Daniel Leyton and, as the solemn clock boomed out the half-hour with sepulchral clang, she unfolded this letter for the twentieth time, and glanced, with knitted brows.
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