The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 385: what you’re looking at

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A DEED OF VENGEANCE 300 herself sufficiently to experience a sense of the calamity which had occurred to her; and, casting her looks in frenzied wildness around, she could see nothing of either the youth or the infant. But close by her side was the man whose sinister looks and desperate menaces had already struck her with so deep a consternation. “Young woman,” said Melmoth, in his deep hollow voice, ‘‘ return to your master, and tell him that his child has been stolen, in order that a vengeance may be consum- mated. Tell him that the individual who has done this is the same whom he saw in the sick ward of Whitechapel work- house, and whom he was the means of plunging into the mad cells of that place, —- the same whose babe he cheated of the right of burial, and doubtless has preserved as an anatomical curiosity in his own pharmacy. Tell him this; ay, and tell him likewise that he may spare himself all trouble, all ex- pense, and.all research in the hope of recovering his child; for those into whose possession that infant has now passed will keep it as their own even though countless treasures be offered for its restoration. And tell your master also that his son shall be dragged through all the mire and filth of misery, beggary, depravity, and profligacy, until the boy shall have become a proficient in every vice and an adept in every iniquity; and then— but not till then — shall. he be sent back to his parents.” Having thus spoken, and without waiting to observe the effect which the terrible tirade was only too well adapted to produce upon the mind of the horror-stricken woman, Melmoth darted away from her presence and was speedily lost to her view. COU Doo cS mn