Penny Blood Serial Cover — page 11: what you’re looking at

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

ALFRED DE ROSANN. CHAPTER 1. THE EMIGRANTS. Towarps the close of the year 1793, when the horrors of the French Revolution expelled so many noble emigrants from their unhappy country to seek an asylum on the hospitable shores of England, whose sons are ever ready to afford shelter and protection to the political sufferers of other climes, a post-chaise drove up to the door of a hotel in Leicester Square, and a foreigner of commanding--aspect, and aristo- cratic mien, descended the steps of the vehicle, crying involuntarily, “thank God ! we are at length safe in the metropolis of England!’ He then assisted a lady to alight from the carriage, which she did with difficulty, for in her arms she carried a sleeping babe that had scarcely breathed the air of this world eight or ten months. The landlord received the strangers with ~ obsequious bows, for they were evidently of high rank —if manners and appearance form a criterion to judge of the position of individuals in the wide circle of society—although they merely gave as their names Monsieur and Madame d’BHstelle, without any titular appendage. Of one thing, however, they made no secret: too much rejoiced at having escaped the persecutions awaiting them in their own country, the COmicooolks