The Mysteries of the Court of London Vol. 7 — page 230: what you’re looking at

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"HE MYSTERINC OF THE COURT Ia ~t apeal, bot 1 : ‘ i an is] i a \ . ; i! .44 : ty F ; by making bis appearance before Madame Ange- lique in the middle of the night, extort from her terrors a fer larger booty than he might perhaps succeed in obtaining from his own unassisted re- searches in the room. The sound of the back-door closing, and then the light trip of footateps ascending the stairs, left the Burker no farther discretion in the affair. He comprehended that the pretty servant-maid had returned, and that she was most probably secking her mistress’s chamber to prepare it for the night: so he accordingly slipped at once under the couch. The girl entered, and was for eome time busied in the chamber,— the Burker being in readiness to spring forth and seise her by the throat if she should by any chance happen to look under the bed. Little suspected the. pre that r was so imminent ; and it was perbaps fortunate for her that she did at plunge her eyes into the ruffian’s place of am- b. DB » No. 8.—Voustx Ssnime . nS, Sayte -_ Poucprpry mae ip Ay \ / i yt a fo ‘ . ea, 7 ) a ~Pcgeopmeoe as oe j . | ' . ‘ #4 a ee : a 70 | | Hine | |e a ee oo by nn For upwards of half an hour did the maid. servant remain in that chamber—more, as it would ecem, for the purpose of whiling away the time than for the completion of any actual work which she had to do; because this latter might have been compressed into a third of that space. Jane was a lively, happy girl, and sang to herself during the interval she remained there—unconscious as the bird upon the bough thet the concealed, coiled-up reptile was in reafliness to spring forth. At length she quitted the room, taking the light with her ; and the Burker thought to himself that as he had remained there secure to long, it would pers haps be better worth his while to tarry until Ma- dame Angelique should come up to the chamber-— when, after sleep had fallen upon her eyes, ha might steal forth, he might awaken her, aud he might compel her to surrender up all the money and valuables she had in the house., By this plan, too, he would secure himeelf a safe egress in the ELOOO SS (CO)