Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 248 of 392
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MR. SAMUEL EMANUEL 217 delight at all the intelligence which they thus received. They repaired at once to the address named, and on arriving at the house, in an open, airy, and healthy part of Islington, they found that lodgings of the most cheerful and comfort- able description had been taken for the poor sufferer, that a nurse had been provided for her, that ample funds had been placed for her benefit in the hands of the landlady, who was a kind, benevolent woman, and that poor Mary Wright herself had received Mr. Redcliffe’s assurance, delivered through the medium of the worthy surgeon, that she need have no further care in respect to her maintenance, as she would be well provided for. Mary Wright had also learned that it was through Christina she had thus become the object of such noble charity, and we may add that she had not forgotten to inform the medical man of the kindness received from a beautiful young creature with dark hair and eyes, but whose name she had not learned. CORAICLOO© SS (C(O)