The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 213: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XV LORD CLANDON WE need hardly inform the reader that immense was the public excitement when it became reported abroad that Lord Clandon was innocent of the murder of his uncle many years back, that he who had so long borne the ducal title since that tragic event was the veritable assassin, that having in a last illness made a full confession, he had prematurely paid the debt of nature, that his unhappy wife, as innocent as he was guilty, had perished through affliction at the same time, and that a youthful heir had been found for the title of Marchmont. But it did not transpire by what means these revelations and these circumstances had been brought about. The secret of Queen Indora’s arrangements in respect to the tribunal was faithfully kept by the old steward Purvis and the other domestics at Oaklands who had been necessarily privy to these measures. The queen and the twins returned to London. Christina remained with her Majesty, but Christian, by the advice of Mr. Coleman, and likewise at the earnest recommendation of his cousin Lord Clandon, proceeded to take up his abode at Marchmont House in Belgrave Square. There, at a mansion in which he had formerly filled a comparatively humble position, he was now received as a lord and a master, and the carriages of the highest aristocracy were continuously driving up to the door that cards might be left for the young Duke of Marchmont. The day for Lord Clandon’s trial was now at hand. The law required that this ceremony should take place, though every one knew that it must prove a mere matter of form, and that the innocence of his lordship would be fully made manifest. Indeed, immediately after the events at Oaklands 188 Gomiuicdoc cS (E(©)