Penny Dreadfuls, 1860 · page 293 of 394
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THE GLASS OF LIQUEUR 259 offspring of her own disordered fancy. But at length, unable any longer to endure the contemplation of an object which to her had all the appearance and produced all the effects of the sternest reality, she burst, as it were, from the moral tetanus which held her spellbound; and, clapping her hands frantically to her throbbing brows, she gave utterance to a hollow moan and sank upon the carpet. EO MG 6)(0)(0)