ComicBooks.com Register / Loginit's free!

Penny Dreadfuls, 1857 · page 137 of 394

Agnes, or, Beauty and Pleasure — page 137: what you’re looking at

📖 Open the full issue in the page-flip reader →
Agnes, or, Beauty and Pleasure — page 137: Penny Dreadfuls, 1857

A restored page from Penny Dreadfuls, 1857. Page through the whole issue in the reader above.

📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Lh a Tan! || yo Nit] Pz | \ mn ‘ {s i 1 X72" "AR Se || v/t/ Mie sate || iL VG S Ps \ , \ sjw > ] adil fcrgotten,—that object moving amongst the trees at a distance when he was retaining Emily Pin- nock in his arms. The colour mounted, vivid and gluwing, to the youth’s cheeks; and he said ina hesitating and faltering tone, “I know what you mean, Mr. Hargrave—you saw something that took place—you were amongst the trees fr “And what am I to understand,” demanded the misanthrope, “by this present confusion on your part? Is it possible that you have whis- pered guilefully in the ear of the merckant’s daughter ?” “ Guilefully ?” echoed Gustavus, ‘No, sir! I am incapable of it!”—and he now looked Mr. Hargrave fully and frankly in the face. ‘I con- fess that I love Mr. Pinnock’s niece—she loves me in return—she has consented that I shall pro- ceed to England—I have promised to come back So soon as certain affairs shall have been duly No, 17.—Aa@yzs. ee ° AGNES ; OR, BEAUTY AND PLEASURE. f iN 2a ATW Lil teagataiy \ {i kel) ih i ih inh} Ins! fi ; 1 Mh Hl, 1 JA il ATH SHEN | SSS eT tel tl Wy it} i | , i iN; nth MN NWA | Tr 4 y if \\ ye)! iti } a i | tot | j Ss ee i" mn ml } | we t . ] Tee } . ATTY =P ! , INI zc \at sm i Ww =’ I _——— —— Yj : \ = . a = : ji Bi | j , ut 4 } | 5 le ‘ j = | ~ ' d — iN > ' \ ~ \ = ~ \ S SS > \\ a (77 rs BP PAWS S > ‘ Sh il Q\ . NS WAS SS PRA nv % \ \ | \ i , LAN HK i \ \ * Nf \ \ NI : \ 1 ()} i \/ 67] = | ‘ ) \ nn() \ x : = p “ NO xy oe \ A\N Wah tl ‘ . KAZ [A fe settled—and moreover I intend this very day to speak to Mr, Pinnock upon the subject.” “Tis well, young man,” said the misanthrope:s your intentions are honourable—you will appeal to the young lady’s father—and it is suflicient. Mr. Pinnock loves his daughter—though ufac- knowledged as such i “Ah! what mean you?” ejaculated Gustavus, who had been wondering why the misanthrope spoke of them as father and daughter, when the youth himself looked upon them only as unclo and niece. “Oh, it is scarcely a secret,’ ejaculated Mr. Hargrave: “or else perhaps I should be the last man in existence to betray the mystery if it were one worth keeping. But all the neighbourhood knows the real truth; and Mr. Pinnock himself will most probably reveal it to you when you are presently alone together. He has never been Comicloolks