The Mysteries of the Court of London Vol. 7 — page 294: what you’re looking at

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THE MYseTERING OF THE COURT. ee ey quip 4 aaa = see tee Ce The Duke could scarcely repress a cry of an- ° guished terror at the words which had just emitten his ear ; and he rushed into the diverging passage, as it wildly unoxious to escape from the sir he was now breathing. The Governor of course attributed all thie display of powerful emotions on the Duke’s part, to a sense of affliction on his brother's account; and he begged his Grace to walk into his parlour and take some refreshment. But the Duke gave no response ; and issuing from the gaol, flung himeslf into the cab, in a state of mind that need not to have been envied by any wretch ever coming forth from that same prison to perish on the black scaffold erected outtide. The driver asked whither he should proceed ; and the Duke answered, unconscious of the reply which he was giving. He hed mentioned Belgrave Square; effd thither the cab ingly went. Mr. Price, Coleman’s clerk, still followed at a little distance-antil he at length beheld the Dake No. 88.—¥ountu Sukiza. =, —-— eeesese OP ey lpg s We 6 281 enfer his own mansion in Belgrave Square, from all the windows of which a flood of lustre was pouring forth ; for there was a grand entertain- ment at Marchmont House that evening. The Duchess was receiving the elite of the ane- tocracy ; and the splendid saloons were throws open for the accommodation of the numerous guests. There was dancing in the state-apartment —-there was play in the card-rooms—and the picture-gallerics, brilliantly lighted, were the ree sorte of the loungets from the saloons themeslves. The intelligence of Lord Clandon’s arrest bad only just reached the mansion: it began to be ru- wooured amongst the domestics--but to the come pany it was as yet unknown. ‘When the Duke slighted from the common hack-cab—and pala the numerens megane assembled there, eapposed, aa the Governor of Newgate had that his Grace's appearance was prodaced by J ef OOO) SS (CO)