The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 123: what you’re looking at

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

A HUSBAND’S SELF -MARTYRDOM 101 intelligent, so sensitive, and so just, should become an altered being under such an influence and when moved by the impulse of so much gratitude, wonder, and admiration! And to this frame of mind was the Countess of Desborough more easily brought by the fact that her love for Ramsey had been converted into the most ineffable hatred, abhor- rence, and loathing; so that she experienced an indescribable relief, amounting to the ecstasy of a pleasure hitherto un- known, in turning away, as it were, from the memory of an amour so gross and so fraught with shame, to find herself the object of a passion so spiritually pure, so holy, and so eesthetic. CORNUC } KS \