The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 190: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

CHAPTER XIX THE SECOND JOURNEY ON THE CONTINENT Tue reader has doubtless ere this begun to experience some surprise that we have so long appeared to lose sight of Jocelyn Loftus, but we now propose to turn our attention to that excellent and high-souled young man. It will be recollected that when last we saw him it was in London, whither he had proceeded from Canterbury in obedience to a letter privately written to him by the Princess Sophia. It was on that occasion also that he had attended the private theatricals at Carlton House, and that he had experienced such strange feelings on beholding Lady Sack- ville upon the mimic stage. Nor less will it be remembered that the interview which he succeeded in obtaining with the prince regent terminated only in inspiring him with loathing and disgust for the royal voluptuary. Indeed, so convinced was he of the unmitigated profligacy and disso- luteness of the prince that he felt persuaded it would be altogether useless to intercede with such a man on behalf of his injured wite. ‘Therefore was it that Jocelyn, after having written a letter to Venetia and after a second inter- view with the Princess Sophia, returned to Canterbury. But, as a matter of course, his presence at the private theatricals had been duly reported to Mrs. Owen at Rich- mond and to the queen at Windsor; and as it was believed irom the fact of his having sought an audience of the prince that he was still interesting himself in the affairs of the Princess of Wales, the conspirators had immediately resolved to place a spy upon his actions. Thus was it that on his return to Canterbury he was followed by a trustworthy agent of those conspirators. We must here observe that at his second interview with 1738 : GOmMmiicdoo! eS) (C(O) am