The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 363: what you’re looking at

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dd2 REYNOLDS’ WORKS welfare, and who will be unto you both as a friend, a suardian, and a father.’’ Mr. Redcliffe folded the twins in his arms, and wept over them. They knelt at his feet, murmuring forth in broken voices the expressions of their gratitude, for it was sweet indeed, — ah, it was sweet for this youthful brother and sister to possess the friendship, the guardianship, and the love of one who had known their mother. He raised them up from their kneeling posture; again he embraced them both, and then relocking the casket, he said to Christina, ‘“‘ Keep you these valuables, my dear girl, with the most sedulous care, — keep them, I say, not merely as the memorials of your deceased mother, but as objects which may sooner or later prove of importance in another sense.”’ “Will you keep them for us?’ asked both the twins, speaking as 1t were in the same breath. Mr. Redcliffe reflected for a moment, and then he said, “Yes, I will keep them, but I hope and trust it will only be for a short while that I may thus feel it safer to take charge of these valuables, and then shall they be restored unto you. Ask me nothing more now, and let us turn the conversation upon other subjects.”’ Mr. Redcliffe hastened to lock up the casket in a secure place, and the remainder of the day was passed by himself and the orphans with that affectionate and friendly inter- course which naturally followed the scenes that had taken place, and the new light in which they respectively stood, — namely, he as their guardian and protector, and they as the grateful recipients of his kindness and his bounty. nm CORMICLIOOKS