Penny Dreadfuls, 1895 · page 57 of 400
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QqneaumGeaEne=ss. séeueEw ase awe @ 44 sf THE MYSTERIES OF THE CouRt. most fit and suitable admirer.for auch a charming creature as the occupant of Evergreen Vills.” “ But you must understand it {s not marriage thet I mean.” “You need not tell me that. means marriage does not go beati bush in such aastyle as this. You long.to pos- soss that girl; and I do not hesitate to declare that you shell succeed.” “Ah! Saxondale, rejoiced at the tone of confidence and: the air of assurance with which the woman, spoke: “ But really, when I look at you, I do ragognize a cortain superiority about. you underneath bans poverty-strigken gs rh" A man who plied the woman: ang fora that point. Relative to-your Gwa ; Apro that your aspirations shall be gre ods shortly, per | Event dhe eb all aoquaitted with London knows in the meantime I. will not. let thegtade grow under my fest.: This. very evening: re T-instl- tute the ingatries: gon “have: shall have everything:complete.” °°. “ And.do you think,” naked Saxondale, is ¢fint Sf T took it into myviead to atey a. week or ten days altogether tn this ueighbourhood, I ooild obtain n decent lo ao that I might be olope.at. dgtog bert to some innovatory improvements therdin : , but | many of the worst features of that densely popu- -lated nefghbourhdod still exist just as they were hand to avail myself’ at any ‘moment of: whatso- ever cirournstazices might trauspire?”. “ Teuppose;"seid the wornsa, -“ thetif you mean ‘to. throw: your spies. of rorkaucé ‘foto. this Je affair, you could ¢ontent yourself: with commodatinns. for'a little while ?. Beoause, if a could: make up a ded hére—— Ab |: yon 2 need mi ifo's | Geen: -sheate: and: blankets. at the. rag time; and s new toatiress. ‘too. into: turn up you? Sope ‘40° baakly. e Whe I town to-morrow ‘to’. a your: dress, I can ‘ges: you the ba “We visable to maka: pre upon the floor: and younould i nhe sowie retresE- ments from the tavern: yonder, © All. this will be amusing enough; aud whén the charming creature. comes to know what I have done for her sake————".|' paths, . - walled or. fended off on “the brink of the butting -| thiongh which the stress flows. From the ap- pesrance of the. piace #¢ wonld soem as if rio'sach | ving-rates were. known: ‘thores.-or. if a:dowaright: ‘sobbery',to.Je¥y them — in @ quarter where not a bit of of: pavedient ia to be , ciel ‘Vet’ the. ‘-anipe “She will of course view you with an. intaregt all the greatér,” rejained the women: | “ Then be the .atrangements.es. you auggest,” increase the coniforte of. your placéand “procure the things that I requise... tis ele ne earndet of what my liberality mnyrbe, If thee bh your aselat~ ance I succeed in the: anoomig J binent. of ‘my Thus speaking, Edmund again aiew forth the well-filled purse and tossed tan, sovereigna ‘Tho woman did not atter a wordof:| about the you promise me that?”. exclaimed: ‘self upon having. and ‘sgoh. otbors as “EF deem’ $& nevossary to mgks j. and 'to-. morrow & will procure the mechanse's dress. You | way iteclf, running throw : Jepent quarters. ‘gacends: & nerrow rising. pathway— - row of wretched little huts, with little pieces of I ‘don't know bub what it wool be ea | the midat of: titing Ager: | trict ‘some of the houses overhang the towing- said Lord Saxondale. * Here iuthe whordwith #0 things. as | they: be, it. |. rater : ee you come up to-morrow evening after dusk, I may perhaps have. tidings of a more setistactory mature to communicate than you ate likely te dream of... At all eventa I will do my best.” 4 Then I will be. bere after dusk,” rejoined Saxondals, perfectly delighted at the tondof confi- denos.in which the wotsan spoke and the business- like way in which She treated the wholo affair. He then tonk his departure, congratulating him- Sean: led by accident to that cot- ‘had found eo valuable an agent to Qn retracing his steps wh a hime his designs. | towards Holloway, he’kept at « prudent distance | frem Evergreen Villa | he onal find, ae apenas “Yes ithe superiority of intellect.” at cinos re- : momentehe drew her- | self up haughtily.’* 1 was not‘alwayawhatl sow] - seem. But no mattero—we will mot toueh : upon a; and taking the first cab - OHAPTER x1. “ 0 "AGAR TOWN. King's. ‘Grose, where until very lately stood the Hever Hospital, beliind which was the quarter we ‘ave about to describe. . But ere entering upon this ‘Qeecription, we rust observe that the Fever Hos. pulled down, and at this present etation-of the Great Northern the spot. The rail- the district which is jut to.ccoupy opr. attention, has necessarily led pital has bon ee Ad the principal. Railway is being built an 9 in the year 1646, the date of this portion of our tale... At that. time. ‘Ager Town might be de- scribed:as a sort of peculisr colony or indepen- ‘dent settlement, cut off as it were from the ad- St. Turning out. of the King's. Road close by Pancras Workhouse, the explorer of that garden, the borders of which'are edged with large stones--gnd. continuing his way, is speedily in ‘maze. ot: streets and alleys consti- ‘own, A canal intersects the dis- ‘and the: little beck-yards of ‘ others. are a thoroughfares cannot ws roeday for 80: yn from being ‘trou le | ont nte level hem: D ary tho table. - at’ no. acknowledgement, but Geliberataly gathe * jearcia ing np the heaviedl the plage apped.then ints hai ae § | peas song without: ye then aad bors * — whet | shear woul a Teme eedelon Kb.dnoe ms turn on’ LOAO© SS (CO)