The Mysteries of London; or, Revelations of the British Metropolis — page 131: what you’re looking at

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OF LONDON. a9 had been acquainted with, and whom he was 80 very anxious to serve. The countess was never- theless irresistible, and from the first moment, captivated Susannah’s manners; they tacitly felt a mutual sympathy for each other, before they had exchanged a word, excepting the common and hacknied terms used on first intreduction, _ And afterward, when they had conversed together for ashort time, they both thought, and almost at the same moment, that they should like each other. | They were talking together, without hendibe the admiration which the whole house had evine- ed upon the appearance of Susannah, and with-— out noticing the varied exciamations that issued from the omnibus box; when suddeniy Susannah perceived Brian, when he came to the front of it to look at her. The lovely girl stopped suddenly in the middle of a sentence. Her whole being seemed to be struck motionless. Brian’s look seemed to electrify her, as does the magnetic shoek of a torpedo, when a swimmer aecidentaliy comes in coniract with it. The countess seemed almost to participate in the shock, so suddenly violent had it been. She remarked that Susannah had become pale, and curiosity following the direction of her eyes, she . perceived Brian, who then turned to leave the box, She loves him, thought the countess; for that | is the first, the only suspicion, which presents _jtself to a woman’s mind. Be ets meSuntess remained discreetly is hick and = I % , Bi 3 : ¥ + *) : “ BS « . ® S x ott : a> te EGS Agta CORME NNO <S.COnns of fs. 4%f AEN 2 gop *, o- 2 .