The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 277: what you’re looking at

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248 REYNOLDS’ WORKS She proceeded to the village church where the remains of those hapless and guilty lovers lay entombed, and she felt the tears stealing down her cheeks as she thought of the sad and terrible doom they had encountered. Before she departed from Bloomfield, the new bridge was commenced across the ravine, and the invalid peasant woman, surrounded by comforts of every kind, and rapidly recovering her health and strength, had every reason to bless the generosity of Isabella Vincent. The young lady returned to the metropolis, having previously learned by letter a sufficiency of the startling incidents which had occurred at Oaklands to comprehend how important a change had taken place in the circumstances of Christian and Christina. And now some months elapsed, which interval brings us down to the date of the circumstances that occupied the preceding chapter. CORNIELOOOKS (E(©)