Agnes, or, Beauty and Pleasure — page 185: what you’re looking at

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177 i A gS: = VE a at Ce we ay LB Z ~ Ab! you have not told me,” exclaimed Agnes, “how this discovery was made ?” “ Forgive me, my sweet friend!” said Corinna, tirowing her arms round our heroine’s neck, “when I[ tell you that I have known it for some weeks !” “For some weeks?” cried Agnes in amaze- ment, * Yes—ever since the day when I first met you,” rejoined Corinna. , “T cannot understand it!” ejaculated Agnes. “T feel as if you were speaking with the know- ledge of something that is as yet unknown to me! Ob, Corinna! you are incapable of any studied deception—without a sufficient reason “ And perhaps, dearest Agnes, 1 may have had a sufficient reason to deceive you!”—and she pressed her beautiful vermilion lips to the damask cheek of our heroine. No. 75.—AGNES. \ ANOTHER PORTRAIT OF AGNES. Ne) | ‘Ss i \ " ; NESS CR\ ~N AN We “Oh! then I am indeed hovering upon the brink of some revelation!’ exclaimed Agnes “But I conjure you to teil me whether you have evil or good news ?” “ God forbid,” cried Corinna, enthusiastically, “that I should have evil tidings for you, my sweet cousin!” “Cousin? Yes! you are my cousin if your mother were indeed so nearly allied to my pour father! But you have known it ever since we first met, Corinna? you have thus known it for six long weeks?” = “It was a seeret which I was most strictly de- sired to keep,” rejoined Corinna. ‘“ Mr. Har- grave he “Mr. Hargrave ?” echoed Agnes. ‘“ Why, that was the gentleman who brought over the docu- ment which effected old Mr, Barrington’s re- lease |” Vou. Ii. LOO) > C© 5}