The Mysteries of London; or, Revelations of the British Metropolis — page 71: what you’re looking at

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OF LONDON, 69 Mr, Edward threw him two sovereigns, and dismissed him with a sign. Bob Lantern kissed the gold, as beggars de when they receive alms. God bless your honour, said he, but muttered as he retired: forty miserable shillings, when he gives aten pound note toa collecting girl; pers haps that boy would be more generous—I have a great mind to try him. _ The poor maiden had passed the period when the passions were maturing, and the affections yearning for some object on which to lavish their tenderness, in an almost monastic solitude, No useless employment, or frivolous pursuit, - had diverted her fancy from contemplating, in the ‘elegant stranger whom she had so frequently seen from her own window, the ideal of her dreams, the realization of her hopes, upon wkom she could exhaust the strength, the ardour, the insa- tiable fondness of her soul. _ Clara and her youngest sister had spent their Youth at Lochmaben, of which Mr. Macfarlane, itheir father, was the principal magistrate, At an age, when a young girl needs so much the lessons ~ and the counsels of a mother, the sisters had been deprived of theirs, For two or three years, their father had educated his daughters in his own man- sion; but quite suddenly he changed his designs, and his conduct hecams very mysterious, Un. ‘known men took up their abode in his mansion, with whom he held long and frequent conferen- bes ‘ces, and whom he accompanied on secretjourneys, = the object of which was scrupulously concealed. It was at this time that he solicited his sister, Mrs. ae Macnab, who resided in London, to take charga * as of — a4 at! bed y a Uo oe nes oh X : : ee Us ; -? : we 4 i) ‘ . - . < as e Stall en, SS pS OY telat ks 1 Gomicbooks: com,