Agnes, or, Beauty and Pleasure — page 233: what you’re looking at

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

‘ ee el i te — ee %, ey, . AD. MUHA SSS Os WES AGNES; OB, BEAUTY AND PLEASUZRE, Lo ie) Or “ne Mp. 4 Ne =p TG Up PD. Les NE 4) — ——~ 7, fel ZZ Ce py S GINEVRA place. Charles De Vere lingered in order to af- ford sufficient time for Ginevra to seek the confes- sional, and for Silvio to deliver her message at the vestiary. He was now about to take his depar- ture, when just as he was on the point of emerging from the shade of the pillar, he beheld the form of an individual, wrepped in the cowl of a Dominican priest, sad earing the scapulary of that order, pacing towards the confessional. But at that very instant a current of air some- what disturbed the dark hood which was drawn over the individual’s head; and Charles caught a glimpse of the countenance that was thus for a moment,revealed. All his recollections of the No. 29.—AGNEa. night before the last flamed up vividly in his mind; and he was smitten with the impression that the face he had just seen was the same which he had only imperfectly obtained a glimpse of on that night. Was it possible, therefore, that Silvio himself was now by some means personating the priest—that he was usurping the functions of the Father Falconara whose holy ministration the guilty Ginevra had specially demanded P Charles had drawn quickly back in such a way that the individual—whether Silvio, or Falconara, or any one else—could not possibly have noticed him; and again behind the pillar did our hero reflect profuundly. Ifa hideous imposture were ee eee —— COMMiclooolKxs om