Chapter 17: Chic Aujourd'hui

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌​‌⁠Captain Trevalyon assisted his friends to alight in front of a handsome house in a fashionable avenue.

"Can this be the right address," said Lady Esmondet. "It is a private residence et regardez, by the gas-light in the entrance one can see the arms of a noble house cut in the stone."

"Yes," answered Trevalyon, "we are all right; a patrician mansion knocked down by the hammer, now simply numero troi