Penny Blood Serial Cover — page 66: what you’re looking at

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58 . ALFRED DE ROSANN. of his dungeon in company with another convict named Theodore, and was once more a free man in the open fields. Full of lively hope, and emboldened by suc- cess, he pushed bravely on towards Paris, having bidden adieu to the partner of his flight at a short dis- tance from Brest. The inconvenience of travelling in France without a passeport en régle,* added to the dread of encountering the Gendarmes, who might demand his papers, and arrest him when they found he had none, obliged him, notwithstanding his un- wearied perseverance, to waste upwards of ten days in his journey from Brest to the metropolis. During this tedious march he was fain to make divers turn- ings, and to follow many circuitous routes which the ~ traveller without fear would have avoided ; and he was not unfrequently obliged to conceal himself for hours together in woods and dense thickets, whenever he arrived in the vicinity of a town, or in the neigh- bourhood of barracks, At length the stupendous domes and towers of Paris greeted his anxious eyes— and he felt his spirits rise, and his heart leap within him, as he entered the vast city by the Faubourg du Roule, about an hour after sunset, in the month of October. That day year he was again arrested, and was compelled to renew his acquaintance with the Pro- cureur du fot. It appeared that he had contrived to hire a magnificent house, ready furnished ina most costly manner, of an old French baron who was de- sired by the physicians to retire for the summer months to his chateau in the country. A short time ~ after the worthy peer’s back was turned upon Paris, Belle-Rose sold the furniture, the plate, the linen—in fine, the whole moveable contents of the hotel by a private auction. Having secured a considerable sum of money through the medium of this nefarious trans- action, he was about to decamp, when the porter of the house, whom he had expressly discharged the * A passport that has gone through the necessary formalities to make it available. : aa Commicloooks. conn