{"id":1027,"date":"2026-01-03T21:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/company-13-nell-gwynnes-scarlet-spy-baker-kage\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:09:35","slug":"company-13-nell-gwynnes-scarlet-spy-baker-kage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/company-13-nell-gwynnes-scarlet-spy-baker-kage\/","title":{"rendered":"Company 13 – Nell Gwynne’s Scarlet Spy – Baker, Kage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I<\/span>N THE CITY of Westminster, in the vicinity of Birdcage Walk, in the year of our Lord 1844\u2026 There was once a private residence with a view of St. James\u2019 park. It was generally known, among the London tradesmen, that a respectable widow resided there, upon whom it was never necessary to call for overdue payment. Beggars knew she could be relied upon for charity, if they weren\u2019t too importunate, and they were careful never to be so; for she was one of their own, in a manner of speaking, being as she was blind.<\/p>\n

Now and again Mrs. Corvey could be observed, with her smoked goggles and walking-stick, on the arm of her adolescent son Herbert, taking the pleasant air in the park. It was known that she had several daughters also, though the precise number was unclear, and that her younger sister was in residence there as well. There may even have been a pair of younger sisters, or perhaps there was an unmarried sister-in-law, and though the daughters had certainly left the schoolroom their governess seemed to have been retained.<\/p>\n

In any other neighborhood, perhaps, there would have been some uncouth speculation about the inordinate number of females under one roof. The lady of the house by Birdcage Walk, however, retained her reputation for spotless respectability, largely because no gentlemen visitors were ever seen arriving or departing the premises, at any hour of the day or night whatsoever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Book Preview In which it is established that: IN THE CITY of Westminster, in the vicinity of Birdcage Walk, in the year of our Lord 1844\u2026 There was once a private residence with a view of St. James\u2019 park. It was generally known, among the London tradesmen, that a respectable widow resided there, upon whom … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kage-baker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}