Black Bess; or, The Knight of the Road — A Tale of the Good Old Times — page 171: what you’re looking at

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

o oo ae —___-, So vi wt 4 — as Ni 1a, =\- 2 ~ Ss BS SEAS “o , i : all 1) ~——— Cem aan ee "=. oe BLUESKIN : A ROMANCE, \ —— = ee = eee So —— SSS ey a ee —————— ———— a ee —— ree cael a 4% Vay “~~ wv Oe . ‘ fe Whe: is —o G , a } ieety a [JONATITAN WILD FIRES AT BLUESKIN ON THE THAMES. ] Fennell closed the door. Then, mounting the rumble behind, ordered the coachman to drive on. Their destination was evidently already known to him, | for it was not mentioned, and yet he guided his horses” round the corner of St. James’s-street into Pall-mall, and so on until Westminster-bridge was reached and crossed. The strong, spirited horses which were harnessed to the vehicle dashed onward over the smooth, well-kept road, at an alarming rate. At that early hour in the morning it was not likely they would meet or pass many vehicles; nor did they. ! Down the broad, open Kent-road they went, then bold bad man, Colonel Thorne, we fairly tremble and turn sick with apprehension. Her death-like trance or swoon still continucd. The drug which had been dissolved in the wine must have been of a most powerful character, for the poor girl had drank but the smallest possible quantity of it—a | tablespoonful at the most—and yet its effects were in- stantaneous and continued. She was still enveloped in the ample folds of the cloak, -and remained in the same position as that in which she had been placed—namely, in one corner of the carriage. The colonel was seated by her. His basilisk eyes were fixed upon that portion of her bounded on both sides by tall hedgerows, with pleasant meadows beyond—not as now, one continuous line of brick and mortar. She is now in the toils of the Poor Edgworth Bess! destroyer. When we chink upon the peril with which she is | threatened, and how entirely she is in the power of that “ere a ace eT prety couutenance which the cloak permitted to be visible. It was only dimly that he saw it, for the lamp in the interior of the carriage emitted but a feeble light. It was enough, though. His imagination served to supply the rest. One arm he had around her, without which, or some ; Sa a aS (Cc COMmiICcooo SS (SO)