The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 276: what you’re looking at

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

THE THREE SISTERS 249 At this moment a timepiece on the mantel in Agatha’s room chimed hali-past eight, and the three young ladies, suddenly cutting short their colloquy, hastened down to the breakfast-parlour. COnniclooo a Ss (CO)