The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 276: what you’re looking at

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‘THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. “Oh, for heaven's sake speak !" cried Armytage, now almost wild with mingled joy and suspense. “To avert the blow from ener by bis feelings, burst into ia “Yes,” continued Mr. Coleman, after a brief pause, during which those tears flowed freely from the eyes of Armytage,—“ you can save yourself! But I tell you that the sacrifice you may have to make ie a, * a pene as it involves the com- plete unbosoming of every secret which your beart has batboured.” “What mean you?” gasped he to whom these words were addressed. “T am speaking intelligibly,” proceeded the lawyer. “Look down into the depths of your soul, and see if there be nothing thero which you have hitherto locked up in the profoundest cavern where the most stupendous secrets could possibly be retained. Choose whether vou will have that No, 86,—FovurTa S#xixs. | —and only one object! 265 mighty secret dragged into the hight of day—or whether you will dare a debtor's prison ?” “I do not understand you,” said Armytage— and yet it was with a look and in a tone which conveyed the impression that he was as it were appalled by the manner in which he had just been addressed, “T will now deal more frankly with you,” pro ceeded Mr. Coleman. “The whole tenour of my connexion with you from the very first instant that I sought you out, bas had one object in view I knew that you were in difficulties; and therefore it was not in a blind confidence that I advanced you my client's money, No—it was to get you into our power; and for this reason did I likewise find out where you had bills circulating—for ¢his reason was money given for those bills, that they might get into our hands and paralyse you all the more completely when the day of reckoning’ should come. The web has (CO Ln G OOO) (CO Lf