The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 182: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

160 THE COURT OF LONDON and though my curiosity is keenly excited to question you on several points, so that from your lips I may learn all that has happened, even to the minutest details, during this long blank in my existence, yet must I restrain that curios- ity until the morrow. I know that I ought not to yield to exciting influences. Indeed, I experience some fatigue already. Therefore, leave me, dearest Louisa. I think that I shall soon go to sleep.’’ The young maiden accordingly embraced her aunt, and then retired to rest in another chamber. connicloookKks (CO)