The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 161: what you’re looking at

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140 REYNOLDS’ WORKS Stanhope, who was now reduced to the most abject state of submission. Christian had his carpet-bag already packed for the jour- ney. A cab was summoned, and he proceeded, in company with Wilson Stanhope, to the station of that railway by which they were to travel. As the reader has seen, the last few days had been full of activity and bustle, excitement and business, for our young hero, but he had undertaken a task to which he had devoted all his energies, and which he was resolved should be carried out to a successful issue, so far as it depended upon himself. Others were labouring with equal zeal in the same cause, and every step that was taken proved to be in precise accordance with the grand object that was being aimed at. The greatest interests were at stake, and it was therefore no marvel that so much enterprising spirit should be displayed, so many plans devised and carried out in all their varied ramifications. At the same time of which we are writing, the crisis had fully passed in respect to the Duke of Marchmont, and he was regaining a perfect consciousness of the circumstances which had plunged him into the fever that had menaced his existence. But, oh, he knew not — very far, indeed, was he from suspecting — those other circumstances which were ta- king a rapid and sure development, — a development which was effectually tending to strengthen the web that his own crimes had woven and which was closing in around himself. CORNIELIOOKKS (E(0)