Penny Dreadfuls, 1850 · page 236 of 397
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THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. mam and partake of the breakfast which was al- veady served up. Bat the Pringe declined in terms so positive as to be almost, rude;—and it was oven with s certain degree of coldness which he could not master, that he took a hasty leave of the nobleman. The instant that they had thus separated, a glow ~ indiscribable pleasure suffused itself over the couns.aance of the Earl of Desborough ; and hurrying to his own chamber, he threw himself on & seat, wooping for very joy Y CHAPTER LXIIL ~ THE CONDEMNED EERMON.—THE RXECUTION. ir was Sanday morning;—and the Chapel in New- gate prison afforded a scene of deep end dreadful "| characterised all the avt galleries, respectively allotted to the mass and females, were filled with prisonera, who pre- sented a somewhat more cleanly appearance than on the oocasion of Mrs. Brace’s visit to the esta- | blishment: for the threat which was invariably j held vuton the Sabbath, of stopping the roast-beef of those who did not wash for ohapel, had produced the desired effeot. In the large circular pew in the middle of the place of worship, Martin and Ramsey were seated. Soper, armed with his keys, kept watch upon them: bat this precaution was unnecessary—for escupe was impossible! Consistently with the barbarian cruelty whicr termed “justice,” and suitable with all the law's demands and exigencies, in the time of that detes- table monarch George III, the black coffins la. tended for the two eriminals were placed at thels -| fest, inside the comicbooks.conn i of what wat