The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 18: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Rs REYNOLDS’ WORKS CHAPTER I FATHER AND DAUGHTER WE must now take a temporary leave of the strolling players, and return to the prison whence De Margaux had escaped. Finette, 1t will be remembered, had thrown herself in a state of distraction upon the prostrate and inanimate form of her sire, whom she believed to have been killed by the violence with which he was hurled to the ground. He however speedily showed signs of life, and thus a tremendous weight was lifted from the mind of the unfortunate Finette. The alarm raised by the turnkey immediately previous to his struggle with De Margaux had reached the ears of his brother doorkeepers inside the prison, as well as of the senti- nel who paced in front of it. Several persons therefore were soon upon the spot where the conflict had taken place, and where the drugged soldier still lay senseless, while Finette’s father was coming back to consciousness. The fact that De Margaux had escaped was quickly made known; a pur- suit was instituted in every direction, and a printing-press in the town was promptly set to work to turn out bills and placards offering a reward for his capture. A mounted police officer passed through the very village in the neighbourhood of which De Margaux was at the time making friends with the strollers, but the constable was assured that no person at all answering the felon’s descriptions had been seen in the place. Meanwhile the drugged sentinel was restored to conscious- 1 GOMIIGDIOG SS) (S©)