The Mysteries of London; or, Revelations of the British Metropolis — page 25: what you’re looking at

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OF LONDON. 23 «, 4ac sermon had commenced. <A mysterious power seemed to control her limbs and withstand her . volition, and her piercing eye, sparkling with Supernatural fire, was fasiened upon the pillar. How strange! thought the excited observers ~ such an expression I never saw upon her coun- tenance before; can it be me upon whom she gazes with such a delirious eye P He now passed rapidly around the pillar, and found hinase!f face to face with an individual who was leaning, like himself, against this sup- port; the eyes of the stranger were closed, but.a faint smile was playing about his lips, A shudder, which he found it impossible to repress, passed over the frames cf Stephen. He turned agai to seek the countenance of his mystericus cousin, but Clara had sunk into her seat, and_it was the gratefui smile of Anna that responded to his gaze and thanked him for his presence. [ am not the person my cousin was looking at, “was now the disheartening refiection of Stephen. Se remained for a few moments overpowered with the revelation that had so suddenly burst upon him ; ke endeavoured to summon all the firmness ofa resolute character to subdue his feelings 3; he raised eyes of hatred toward the man who ‘was his rival for the dearest prize: and matured thoughts of blood-stained revenge. Stephen was “brave ; ; several duels in the university had tested — his courage; but he was still a Scotchman, and ~~ the sword and pisio! seemed to him by no means 5 the safest instruments to handle. ; The young physician viewed him with Dihgled as admiration, and envy; the most. ‘extrava- Se a ites ed, Bo +7 ie b> Oe ae ” a “ ~ >). Wis to, 2 : a ' EComichooksrcom