The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 332: what you’re looking at

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THE FORGED LETTER 299 will wink at your infidelities, the result being that she will keep secret the incidents of this night? ”’ ‘“ Matters have become too serious between her and me,”’ said Lord Curzon, “‘ to admit of a compromise.”’ And still he strained the handsome widow in his arms, once more drawing aside the veil from her countenance and covering her lips and cheeks with kisses. ‘“‘ But my situation in the royal household,’’ she murmured. ‘You are not dependent upon it.”’ ‘No, [am rich; but then the honour — ”’ ‘‘ Ah! some sacrifices must be at times made to love,” whispered the earl, in an endearing tone. ‘““ Yes, I feel that it is so,’’? murmured the amorous widow, in a voice that was languid and almost dying with sensual longings. A quarter of an hour afterward the Earl of Curzon and Lady Prescott returned from Kew to London together in the same carriage, and the rest of that night they passed in each other’s company at Mrs. Gale’s fashionable house of accom- modation in Soho Square. (CONNIE OOS (C(O)