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before his arrival, but without gaining any satisfactory information; and that he was now
determined to inquire at all the principal hotels in town, as Mr. Bennet thought it possible
they might have gone to one of them, on their first coming to London, before they procured
lodgings. Mr. Gardiner himself did not expect any success from this measure, but as his
brother was eager in it, he meant to assist him in pursuing it. He added that Mr. Bennet
seemed wholly disinclined at present to leave London and promised to write again very
soon. There was also a postscript to this effect:
"I have written to Colonel Forster to desire him to find out, if possible, from some of the
young man's intimates in the regiment, whether Wickham has any relations or connections
who would be likely to know in what part of town he has now concealed himself. If there
were anyone that one could apply to with a probability of gaining such a clue as that, it
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