Bingham?" inquired Mrs. Sweeting.
"A great many foreigners live there; it is somewhere near Leicester
Square."
Mrs. Bingham knew nothing about the street, but having just concluded a
residence in Paris from the French book, that conclusion led at once to
a further conclusion, clear as noonday, as to the quality of the people
who inhabited Great Ormond Street, and consequently to the final
deduction of its locality.
"Did you not say, Mrs. Sweeting, that she buys her coffee whole?" added
Mrs. Bingham, as if inspiration had flashed into her. "If you want
additional proof that she is French, there it is."
"Portsmouth," mused Mrs. Cobb. "You say, Mrs. Bingham, there are a good
many officers there. Let me see--1815--it's twenty-four years ago since
the battle. A captain may have picked her up in Paris. I'll be bound
that, if she ever was married, she was married when she was sixteen or
seventeen. They are always obliged to marry those French girls when
they are nothing but chits, I've been told--those of them, least-ways,
that don't live with men without being married.
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