The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 56: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER V THE OUTRAGED NOBLEMAN AND THE RESUSCITATED CRIMINAL Puitip RAMSEY, unconscious of the terrible scene which had just occurred and of the appalling discovery that had been made respecting his identity, was pacing his own cham- ber, not with the agitation of alarm or of annoyance, but with the excitement of triumph and the restlessness that invari- ably attends even upon the flush of a proud success. He had so admirably played the hypocrite that the treason he contemplated was now approaching its consummation. The noble woman, so basely deceived, so treacherously beguiled, had promised to fly with him; the arrangements were settled, the plan was determined upon, and in a few hours would the appointed moment arrive at which she was to abandon her husband and her home for ever. And why had the villain Ramsey thus plotted to annihilate all the little happiness that remained to the earl? Why had he thus drawn the infernal meshes of his duplicity and deceit so completely around the confiding and generous- hearted Eleanor that nought but the last and most irreparable of woman’s sacrifices would now content him? His conduct was the result of cold-blooded calculations; and these calculations may be explained in a few words. He knew that it was impossible for him to remain for ever beneath the roof of the Earl of Desborough. An accident, the merest chance, the slightest casualty, would betray him. Moreover, even if the tremendous secret connected with his real name, his true history, and his resuscitation from an ignominious fate, even if this secret should remain undis- covered, was it not contrary to all rational hope that his 38 GOMIGIOO (C(O)