Alfred de Rosann — page 194: what you’re looking at

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ALFRED DE ROSANN. 185 blish your claim to your father’s wealth: and our hero handed the mysterious papers to their legitimate owner. “A miracle! a miracle!”? thundered Mr. Clayton, once more starting from his chair. “The vow must be fulfilled—the oath must be accomplished. Alfred, there is your future bride—her mother cannot recall her words,”’ “Nor will she endeavour to do so,” cried Mrs. Clayton. “ M. De Rosann, you have done mea ser- vice I can never forget—you have developed a mys- tery it has long been my sincerest wish to fathom— and the least I can do to demonstrate my gratitude, is to accord you the hand of my daughter. I shall more- over settle the wealth thus providentially recovered upon her; and at my death all I now possess will alike devolve to you and to Eloise.” . De Rosann and Eloise rushed into each other’s arms, and indulged in a second embrace as long and ardent as the first. Mr. Clayton clapped his hands together in an ecstasy of joy, and his sister-in-law was not very sorry that the affair had terminated thus amicably. Our hero now related the providential manner whereby he became possessed of the documents that had worked so favourable a change in his favour. He accounted for the sudden deviation from his intentions of hastening to Paris, according to his agreement with Mr. Clayton at the farm-house—he detailed the various treacheries of Belle-Rose, and the difficulty he expe- rienced in recovering the precious papers ; he related more fully than before his adventures at the galleys, his escape, the history of Champignon, and the hope- less attachment of Selina Robson. He did not for- at the duel—the circumstance of the horses’ running away with the post-chaise, in which he travelled from London to Southampton—and the particulars of the attempt made upon his property by Belle-Rose, and the two accomplices in that daring deed. Atone time he excited the laughter of his auditors by the recital of the freaks of the deceased Belle-Rose, or the extra- 16* ~ comicbooks (EO)