The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 84: what you’re looking at

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i THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. 73 ————— ina ae afford you the means of disguise and to give you money—if I were also to hold out to you a prospect of a much larger sum, so that you might escape out of the country and get to America or France, Or go out to Australia—anything, in short-——” “Your lordship may command me in every way,” exclaimed the Burker, his hideous hang-dog countenance testifying the utmost joy. “There's nothing I'd stick at to serve so kind a friend as your Grace offers to prove towards me.” “Well and fairly spoken,” rejoined the Duke. *T do indeed require a most signal service at your hands; and if you fulfil it, all that I have promised shall be done.” . ‘We will not dwell any longer upon the conver- gation that took place between the Duke of Marchroont and his miscreant companion: suffice it to say that the latter fully comprehended the dark iniquitous basiness that was entrusted to lkim, and swore to accomplish it. The Duke as- No. 62—yFOURTH SERIES. nna cended to his chamber, and there procured a small phial containing a dye for the complexion, a-black wig with frissy curls, and a false moustache,— theee articles having been required by his Grace for some masquerading purpose several years back, and having since remained forgotten until now in some nook of his wardrobe. He then took from a cupboard a discarded suit of apparel, which by accident, had not as yet passed as “a perquisite” into the hands of his valet; and descending with these things, the Duke of Marchmont rejoined the Burker whom he had left in the servants’ hall, The ruffian speedily metamorphosed himeelf ao- cording to the instructions he received and the means placed at his disposal, and of which he availed himeelf with infinite satisfaction and de- light. By the aid of a looking-glass he dyed bis complexion with a portion of the liquid furnished by the phial; and the Duke informed him how, by the purchase of a few simplo things at a chemist’s, comicibooks.conm