The Mysteries of London, Vol. IV — page 247: what you’re looking at

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eR a TO I ames © ams OE! EEE Oe aS Gay: ne 0 og on oe 7 carina ep ude as PE TD aga aa EE = opi see A a42 THIS WYSTRRIES OF LONDON. Se ER GOO = Carne ee mwa See prejadicc of bis euis “ata acnes, Lut he was, assured that no on) halentered the roam curing ' his braws to such a height that the moremont dis- plared the whites all round his eyes, white the his absence ;—and 1. vat so relactent to fx the | upper part of his forchead gathered into innamerablo deed on Mre. Sefton, ond iad es many rescons | amall wrinkles. agairet sucha snppesution, thet he beeame equally confident she wee in no wes connected with th ftraneg occurrences, At length he 1.7 yaed bimeelf into the bebef that he must have d-p ‘ited the letter in some place which he could sot recollect; and, o¢ he had in the dirst instane: mae a rough draurcht, ke reeolred to write a fur copy all over ariln. This was suon acoomplished; and, hating sesled and nddreseed it, ho tonk the new fetter with him to his own bede chamber, so thet he might retain ie in security until Sirs. Mortimer ¢hould ¢ il for it In the morning. It wes part two ofelosl wb on Lord Wailllam cetired to mets but, thoech riuct fattened, he could not immediately clove hie cree in Clumber, The aFat of the letter haunted aim—filled him with razue and undefined micgisia s*--and as umed an aspect the suere mysteriow, the lonser he con- A superficial obeerver wonld have pronounced tho expresion of his pale features to bo intellectual’ but a more experieneed phrenclogist would be enable] to draw the proper distinction between an air of noble intelligence and one of profound cun nin, shrewdnese, and slfish watchfulness, These jatter qualltses were the seal characteristics of James IIcathente: but with his clerks, nnd amongst =! the generality of his cllents, he passed as a man of very fine Intellect and preat talents, The room in which he was seated had what is wally called “a burinerselit.e ale” about it. Thy eres drngzetthst coveted the door would have sus. tained no harm from a vigorous application of a esp t-bronms and the window, which looked into alittle yard at the back of the house, might have let much of its dinginees If only cleaned once a veck, But the panes appeared as if they had been purporely Unged a dirty yellow, ro incrusted werr templated MH. He endearoured te persuade hinvelf] they with the dust that had gathered upon thom. thst the belli fin whith he tadere now temp warily Julied his mind was the real tefution of the theory: but then world come tLe evidence of menersy, pro- claiming that he Jee? place tthe letter an the mane tel inthe perluur, and that Le had noe toucin 1 it afterwards. In fine, he we- bewildered amild«t a variety of con. Sieting thought"-—ond hus brain prow wearks IP with the ngltathon wide thea Jarsins contention pros duced,—so that atiength slop srcote upon Lim Ine senelbly: but though It ecated ns ces In slumber, Wi not protert him seainet the treabhls Por. ry thot va itesd bree poilteos, Zt about nine ofelacSw in the rurnige Ls vas awikened by the entrance of Lt valet, whee ope te On one fide of the room were rows of shelver containing no namtins of fau-bools, the relative apes of which were marked by the colour of the leather binding —there being a perfiet ateending rcale, from the briphe buff, indie sting the mort recent purchace te the decpent, dirtio't brown that cheractericed the longertanding and wellethumbed volume of remote date, Along the edges of thet shelves were ralicd loner rlips of darherreen rerge—a mespre Rind of drapers meant to pratect the upper part of the volumes from the datt, ant impart to the whole arrancenent Fomowhat of the slr ofarcenular boske | cir, On awetier sito of the room were rowe cf: hale > mach deeger nud cloomich wider apirts snd or Inform ham that ster. Mortimer bad eal d fer aden, oe were Luce fapanned tin boves, with name | letter which was to be in readine’. fur bar. Trevelyan start dup 22d planes J ansxiauely to- wards the night-table, almowt drewiing kot thar second bfiles chould hare dle¢ppeared as weil as the Girst:—butat was these an paftts—and he meow de. sired his dependant to deliver ft to Sirs. Mortimer, CHAPTER CLAVIL THE LAWS ER Mn. Jastns Inatncot., the attorney, was seate | ata writing-table covered with pspers,in lilt private print) Sie: tiem an yellow letters. Ta eters box Chere woes hate: pidioc.: and the whole reemed to tell cf titleedeods to aad eetales—and mortgarges-— and Lon le—an { charg: s—anid rent-rolls, containest an thers sombreslookiny repositaries, Bat, alas £ how few of the per ons whore names were attit recorded of: the outetde of thoee boxes, hal any ' longer an interest in the dewds preserved withing =| how many bad lodgid thelr parehments in hoe’ neurions clu sts, never to recavee them ! ' Orer the mantelephee was a portrait of Lor Llden—a lawyer whom theaands and theurand ¢ were doomed to curse, but whem the “profiesion "| ofice, He was wrapped in a losen drevung-pown, | still contiracs te ery op es the greatest of mnolern and lus feet were thrust lato large bud slippers This prey hair was uneombe Land his beard untharen Shas morning: ond Ins slit was none of the chan- ess Indeed, bis appesranes denoted thet, on awakenn,y, be had meen hactily, thrown ona few elothe:, and reputr: i straleht to his oder, where he Smmediately bectine abroroed on the stady of co rtam documents in which he was ducply interested. Tho countenarce of this induidaal was by no menus pleating. A malhpnont livht shone tu biz arall, restless, dark eves; and he hada hablt, when resed or irritat: d, of frowning—or rather contract. lug his brows to such a degree, that he brought judges, Yes—for if clints complain of the law's | delays, (he Tats sera themselves teyoices and he who Is an exeerable Judge In im peet to the former, isan ' admirable one In the eyes of ¢) 0 Intter, Stuck Into the frame of that portralt: wee an Ine finits number of visitors’ cards, all covered with, dest, as if that ascemblace of bite of pasteboard wile romething sacted which the profane hand of a houses maid or clirwoman dared net touch, On the mane telitcelf was an old tlhaepicce, the mechanism ef which was expoed; and how the wheels could nove at all, clopged with dust as they were, must have appeared marvellous (> any ono who, entering thon as it were to corer his very cye-lids: but, if that room, pare himself tho trouble to devote a pleased—cspecially when he had solved n difficult question or was struck by an tden that seemed par- weilerly Incid or valuable—he would then clevate thourht to the matter, We have already stated that the table was corercé, with popers. 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