The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 68: what you’re looking at

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THE TOKENS 51 “P.§S. Unless anything of importance should transpire, — such, for instance, as the postponement of your removal, —it will not be necessary for any further communication to take place between us. We have given the old woman a hundred guineas.”’ It can scarcely be necessary to inform our readers that the remainder of this day and the whole of the next passed amidst much anxiety and torturing suspense. At one mo- ment Jocelyn was buoyed up with exulting hope, feeling confident in the success of the plans, whatever they were, which his friends outside were conducting; at another moment his spirits drooped, as a bird plunges down from the loftiest clouds into the lowest abysses of some yawning gulf, and he fancied that he was betrayed. As the hour approached for his removal from the prefecture, the restless- ness of his spirit amounted to a positive excruciation, and he felt the blood coursing at a fever-pace in its crimson channels. ECORAICLOO© SS (C(O)