When London Sleeps — page 61: what you’re looking at

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Io86 WOMAN PROPOSES. CHAPTER VI. WOMAN PROPOSES. ‘The circus was playing that week in Barrow-in- Furness, that extraordinary town, which, like some of the Western citiesin America, sprang, mushroom- like, into prosperity in a night. It is a dull, ugly place on the suiel as towns given up entirely to the making of money are apt to be, but it is surrounded by some of the most beauti- ful scenery, some of the most picturesque and interesting spots in all England. It was a lovely morning late in the summer, one of those days when all nature seems to be in tune. The flowers flung forth their most fragrant odors, the birds sang their sweetest, and the waters of _Morecombe Bay sparkled and rippled as if in pure glee at the kisses of the sun, which rode triumphant in the midst of a cloudless sky. Hilda Corrode, as she walked.slowly up and down | upon the grassy bank above the beach, noticed all this, and she wondered if it were a happy augury. Then her eyes fell upon the gloomy, repellant gray _ walls of Peel Castle on the island just opposite, and she shuddered superstitiously. Was the rest of her life to be passed in the sunshine or in haere gloom ? comicbooks.co