Agnes: A Tale of the Streets — page 276: what you’re looking at

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AGNES; OR, BEAUTY AND PLEASURE. Ste emer ee en meee iS rene CATRINA PETRORO. do nothing so indiscreet or inconsiderate! Bu I would have a lodging taken for me.’ “Your wish shall be accomplished,” replie Charles, “Within an hour I will send you th addross of the house in which I shall have engage: apartments for you.” “And there is our servant John,” said th suadroon; “I do not want him to remain witl me. Let him go with his master, I have m' maid—and that is sufficient.” “In all these respects your wishes shall be com olied with,” said Charles: and he then took hi eave, ‘* And is it come to this?” ejaculated the qua lroon, springing up from her seat when the doo! 1ad closed behind him: “is it como to this ‘ha@ all the love I have borne for Gustavus i © experience so immense an ingratitude? An- im I to be crushed as if I were a worm-—trampled | again No. 81.—jAGNES, beneath his feet? Ah, he would get back to his cousin Winifred—would he? He loves her atill, though she is the wife of another! And who knows but that she may have married for con- venicnce’ sake and yet love Gustavus? Qh, the thought is distraction! And he would pack me off to Jamaica! No, no! it shall not be! All my dearest interests aro now contred in Europe! I will outwit Gustavue yot. He has doubtless ar- ranged a meeting place with Charles De Vers, that the latter may report what has taken place betwixt him and me. Well then, at the end of the twenty-four hours De Vere will come to me for my decision; and then I must speak evasively in order to gain time—and De Vere will go to the meeting-placo again, to report what has oc- curred. And then I will watch him—TI will dog. his steps—I will follow bim-—-and Oh! if ona. find myself face to faco with Gustavus, I Vou. IL Comiclookks.conn