The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 397: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXXV THE PRETENDED FRIEND THEODORE VARIAN had not in the meantime experienced any diminution of that fearful interest which he felt in the fate of his victim, an interest of no compassionating kind, but the aim of which was to ensure the dread catastrophe beyond the intervention of anything to prevent it. He had therefore, on the preceding day and on that of which we are now writing, lurked about the exterior of Newgate, watching whether any of Emmerson’s former friends came to visit the prison, for it struck him that the unhappy man might endeavour to obtain the interest of some toward procuring a pardon. Having been a prisoner there himself, Theodore was acquainted with the turnkeys, and by means oi a little bribery and a little treating at the adjacent publc-house, he ascertained the seeming condition of the man’s mind. That is to say, he was told that Emmerson bore himself tranquilly and with apparent resignation, and that no per- sons from out-of-doors save his wife and daughter had been admitted to see him. Theodore Varian knew all the ins and outs of Emmerson’s character so well as to be fully aware that anything like resignation on his part could be merely a hypocritical assumption, and he therefore came to the conclusion that_ the doomed man had yet some hope on which he relied, or some project which he was working out. But Varian was determined that hope and project alike should fail, what- ever they might be, for in the implacability of his vengeance he resolved to hunt his mortal enemy to the scaffold, and only rest when he beheld him hanging lifeless there. While pondering upon the position of affairs, it struck Theodore that he would call upon the barber who usually O80 E@ORMIELNONO KS (E(0)