The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 86: what you’re looking at

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Deveril, with increasing anxiety and fecling that was fully shared by his sister and the Marquis. “This secret was known to me all along,” replied “And thie secret—my poor father’s secret?’ exclaimed our hero. “Oh! keep me not in sus- pese-——" . “Do not exeite yourself, young man,” interrupted “I am not going to run away in a moment “Your father—bumph i” observed Madge, in so singuier a manner thet the eyes of all three were concentrated upon her in a moment. “Now, Wil- liam Deveril,” she continued, “if I heave not at necessary wortis, if ie because the secret I have to make known assistance. done that could be theught of to arrest the flow of the vital current; and when the medical'man arrived in eompany with Lord Eagiedean, he at once ap- proved of the measures thus adopted. . The woman lived; bat she was entirely uncon- scious of what was going on. The surgeon ex- for whither could she be removed, save to a hospital or a workhouse? those who surrounded her, being utterly ignorant of the place of her abede, Bu not for an instant did the generous-hearted Angela entertain any other idea than that the unfortunate woman should be cared for beneath that roof; and these explanations which | hour in the morning. It must not be thought that either Angels or the in a few prefatory | Marquis had omitted to notice the abrupt pursuit and while an almost frantio terror had for an instant seised upon the young lady, the direst apprehen- sions took possession of Lord Eagledean, at the thought that William might meet his death, un- floor. The neat instant the assassin was gone. All this was the work of a moment—ae single mement. The man had no sooner made his ap- pearanse than the blow was stricken, and he weapen shoulder, and she fell like a weight of lead upon the duecription of it: bat the impression which seized upon them both at the instant, was that he was none other than Chidin the Cannibal. Angela flew to raise up the unfortunate woman— the Marquis rashed to her assistance—and the next moment William Deveril, without his hat—without ElOOO (COL CS (COL