Penny Blood Serial Cover — page 95: what you’re looking at

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ALFRED DE ROSANN. 87 timely assistance and mysterious aid had effected so deep an impression on his mind, and had awakened such a variety of conflicting ideas in his bosom, that resignation and patience had totally given way to wild and burning hope. This was not the case with Belle- » Rose: much as he was rejoiced at the felicitous inter- ference of Leblond, and aware as he was of the im- portance of the service rendered by him, without which no escape could ever have been rendered effec- tual,—he still regarded all things with his usual im- perturbable coolness and serenity of disposition; while Champignon fell tooth and nail upon the provisions supplied by the gaoler, muttering between his teeth an almost inaudible regret that the /ricandeau de veau had not been served up with osezlle.* When this meal was concluded, the convicts were summoned, one and all, to the court-yard, where pump-water was at the disposal of those who were anxious to perform their ablutions ere their departure —an opportunity of cleanliness that none rejected. Belle-Rose looked around to catch a glimpse of Au- guste Leblond, but he was not there; and Pierre dared not excite suspicion by inquiring of the gaoler if he had been liberated. The clanking chains were once more attached to the convicts as before ; and the squadron speedily resumed its march, under the escort of another de- tachment of Gendarmes. ee, * Sorrel, CoOmicoooks (GO)