Agnes: A Tale of the Streets — page 15: what you’re looking at

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

AGNES; OR, BEAUTY AND PLEASURE. i vty ; Wert il ot S| Spirits, or whether the alcohol was moro than perience an inclination to sleep ;~and giving my assent to Voitura’s proposition, I shall court re- pose.” Wrapping himself in his cloak, he Jay down in tho vault ; while Raguso settled his own person in a sitting posture, leaning his back against the wall, and the cape of his cloak coming over his head, which rested upon tho lid of the box placed in the recess. “ Tako you the firat watch, Voitura,” he said ; “ondI will relieve you at the end of a couple of hours. Rest assured that at the expiration of that time I shall start up brogd swake and completely refreshed, or to tell you the truth, I also think that I took more than my due share of the potent contents of that flask.” Silence now prevailed. Voitura stood at the entrance of the vault: a little way in, on the left No. 99.—AGNES, 309 hand side, was Raguso: still further in, on the ordinarily potent—but certain it is that I ex- , right hand, was Spezzi;—and at the extromity, some twelve or fifteen yards off, was the Princess. Voitura placed himself in such a position that by the light of the lantern he could command a view of the countenances of his male companions; but he so sottled his own features as to appear as if he were lost in thought. For he saw that notwith- standing hie alleged somnolence, Raguso was not immediately closing his eyes—though on the other hand Spezzi had almost immediately sunk off into @ profound slumber. “Does he suspect anything ? is he watching mo ?” asked Voitura of himself, “If so, were it not better to throw off the mask at once and make the attack? I might even shoot him as be sits half-reclining there! But no!—JI should not think of killing him liko a dog—unless ua a last resource !” . At the expiration of a fow minutes Raguao’s Vou. II. CoMmiclboo S C©