The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 113: what you’re looking at

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Eas 100 THES MYSTERIES OF THE COUET. Christian hastened off again to the Dake of | emerged from the court, as if his conscience Marchmont’s residence; and when it was dusk, Christina went forth to redeem her wearing ap- parel from the pawnbroker’s. With very different feelings from those which she had experienced on the previous evening, was it that she now entered the place; and she returned with a light heart to the lodging, to prepare a comfortable meal against her brothee’s re-appearance. And it was the bread of happiness which the twins ate that night— scarcely saddened by the idea of separation, because they felt it was for their mutual good. But when the morrow came and the hour for and again the farewell embrace ere they tore themselves asunder. CHAPTER XIX, THE BURKER. Tus scene which we are about to 00- curred on the same evening as Christina’s visit to the pawnbroker. It was between nine and ten o’clock that a man of most ill-favoured appearance, from one of the low courts from the New Cut, Lambeth; and bent his way in the direction of the mase of densely populated streets and alleys which lie between the lower parts of the Waterloo and Westminster Roads. This man not altogether so clear as to place his personal molestation. was about forty years of age; and it would be/| tenant. impossible to conceive a human exterior so repul- sive, or so fearfully calculated to make the blood of a beholder curdle in the veins. There are some which reveal an instinctive thirst for blood. all the most terrible attributes of the human mind were concentrated in the expression of that man’s countenance. Hoe had a small snub noee, which enough,—although whispering rumour declared that the wife was somewhat attached to strong waters; but on the other hand, the husband was regular in his attendance st the dissenting chapel se8T pe (SOL (C DOO Col