The Curse Upon Mitre Square — page 37: what you’re looking at

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

29 CHAPTER IV. THE CELL. Hap the prying curiosity of the people been able to penetrate into the house occupied by their silent neighbour in the evening of the event just recorded, they would have seen her in evident grief; tears, perhaps of compunction, stole down her cheeks, and sorrow at the guilty part she was playing was no doubt felt by the woman. Could she now in safety have abandoned her wicked course she would have done so, but the villain who hired her was not to be baulked of his purpose. Whatever her reflections were she was not long allowed to pursue them undisturbed ; the door of her room was opened, and, without any further introduction, her employer entered. Angry words passed between them; the woman wished to retire from the hateful plot, but the man was obdurate, threatened her with every punishment if she deserted the cause, and finally gained the upper hand. JBeing reassured of her allegiance, he ordered her, when quite certain of Martin’s love, to make him leave the monastery and for her to be seen in his company at certain public places, which were specified, and finally to leave him, it being the object of the man to bi .ng disgrace upon the monastery. GoOmiledoo gs) (G(o) m