The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 50: what you’re looking at

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THE STUDY ol deavouring either to throw off or to conceal. Lady Octavian studied well the countenance and manner of her French friend, but without appearing to do so. She felt persuaded in her own mind that there was really something which hung like a weight upon Mademoiselle Volney’s spirits, and now she asked herself whether Clarine could have also seen something to excite her superstitious terrors. EOMINGOIOOKS (CO)