The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 137: what you’re looking at

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PHILANTHROPY 115 set bricklayers and carpenters to work to raise a conven- ient and spacious building for the object which he had in contemplation. The “ wages of crime” surrendered up by William Dudley went a considerable way toward the purchase of the land; and the valet was rejoiced when his master unfolded to him the use to which it was to be appropriated. It was, moreover, resolved by Mr. Eaton that his peni- tent valet should be the superintendent of the institution when the edifice was completed. As he did not wish either to obtrude his humane designs upon the public notice, or to incur the annoyance of having his scheme made the topic of endless, varied, and conflicting speculations before its efficacy had even been put to the test, he shrouded the real objects of the building in as much secrecy as possible; but he encouraged the operatives to use the utmost despatch in raising the structure, and thus, in the course of a few weeks, considerable progress had been made. During that interval, Arthur Eaton had seldom missed a day in visiting the scene of his intended experiment; and very frequently of an evening, when the bricklayers had left off work, would he repair thither with William Dudley, and explain by the light of a lantern the objects of the various architectural arrangements which were thus rapidly develop- ing their features as the several partitions rose within the circuit of the outer walls. We have now given a rapid sketch of the aims and pursuits that occupied the Honourable Arthur Eaton during the period which had elapsed since that memorable night when he frustrated the murderous purpose that took William Dudley and Fernanda to his bedchamber. But was Fernanda a stranger to these pursuits? No; far from it. In various disguises had she watched Eaton’s movements from time to time; and more than once had she overheard, when concealed in the building, the explanations which he gave to William Dudley. The young gentleman’s philanthropy she looked upon as the most sickly sentimental- ism; and the valet’s deep contrition she regarded as a maud-—~ lin sanctimoniousness. ‘Toward the former she continued to entertain the fiercest hatred; toward the latter she had conceived the most profound disgust. She likewise con- sidered Dudley as a traitor to her cause; and thus, while (C(O) mG 6)(0)©)