The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 98: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VI REMORSE RETURN we to Sagoonah, whom we left issuing from the police office after she had heard the magistrate pronounce the committal of Lord Clandon to Newgate. ~ We have seen that the words pronounced by the attorney, to the effect that the ayah might be left to the chastisement of her own conscience, had produced a sudden and powerful impression upon her mind. It was one of those species of menaces which, being thrown out in certain circumstances, touch a particular chord in the heart, and cause it to vibrate painfully. Thus was it with Sagoonah. Love may turn to hate, but when a hatred, so engendered, wreaks its vengeance, it is all the more susceptible of a speedy and poignant re- morse. And thus again was it with Sagoonah. She went forth from the police office, and the memory of that threat haunted her. It appeared to have fastened upon her brain, it clung to her like a curse. She wandered on, unconscious as well as reckless of the way which she was taking; the excruciations of remorse were strengthening within her soul. She thought of how de- votedly she had loved Clement Redcliffe, of how gloriously handsome he was when first she knew him, and of the kind- ness with which he was wont to speak to her. She thought of that royal mistress who had loved her, who had made her a confidante, who had ever treated her with so much affec- tionate tenderness, and who had even passed days and nights by the side of her couch when redeeming her from that death which might have otherwise ensued from the blow dealt by the assassin’s knife. Of all these things Sagoonah thought, and her soul was rent with bitterest remorse for the deed of which she had been guilty. 81 GOMIiGdoOG SS) (S©)