The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 128: what you’re looking at

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A. VISIT TO HEADCORN 107 ‘¢'To deal frankly with you, Amy,” interrupted Christian, “it was upon these points that I came to confer with you. You cannot have forgotten all you told me when I was last here a few months back. You gave me to understand that your sister Marion was seeking to succour you in your plan of contemplated vengeance. You informed me like- wise that she had become connected with Wilson Stanhope, ‘and I have reason to know that Wilson Stanhope himself had some dark dealings with the Duke of Marchmont. Now I must inform you, Amy, that several persons are engaged in weaving the web so tightly around Marchmont that if he should recover from this dangerous illness into which his own tortured und harrowed feelings have no doubt plunged him — ’”’ ~ “Good Heavens! what mean you?” exclaimed Miss Sutton, as a sudden suspicion flashed in unto her mind. “Is it possible that the safety of Marchmont himself is compromised by the arrest of his brother Lord Clan- don? ”’ ~-“ You must not question me, Amy,” replied Christian Ashton. “I am not now at liberty to explain everything I know. But this much I will tell you, that if you will abandon your own. isolated and individual scheme of ven- geance, and coéperate with those who, inspired by no vindic- tive feelings, are anxious only to expose wrong and make right come uppermost, —if, in a word, Amy, you will league with us, and throw, as it were, into the common stock all such means of prosecuting our plan as you may be enabled to afford — ”’ | “Oh, yes,” exclaimed the young woman, with a fierce enthusiasm, ‘ ‘anything, Mr. Ashton, so long as there be a chance of inflicting a terrible chastisement upon the head of him to whom I owe my degradation and my ruin.’ “ There is every chance, Amy,” rejoined our hero. ‘ Tell me, therefore, in which manner and to what extent you can assist us? mba ~ “ You know, Mr. Ashton,” continued Amy Sutton, “ that my frail and in fertunete sister Marion suffered herself to be handed over as the mistress of Wilson Stanhope. She knew from me that this man Stanhope had been connected with the nefarious plans of the Duke of Marchmont; she knew likewise: that it- was my aim to wreak a fearfal” vengeance, COnnICLOOKS (S©)