Penny Dreadfuls, 1850 · page 386 of 397
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tom the happiness enjoyed {n the burning moments of seneusl delight, but also from admiration of those | turned to her uncle’s mansion praces of manner and intellect which so pre-emipently tharacterised the resuscitated convict! Three weeks had elapsed since accident first threw n ber way the man whom she knew only as Gustavus Wakefield : and a fortnight had now passed since she varrendered herself to his arms. During this period love had become enhanced into s frenzy; and husband must have been perfectly blind if he not perosived the worship with which his regarded their guest. Bat she once paused to reflect whether her conduct calculated to excite her husband’s suspi- to the torrent of pleasure and ecatacy | i along and bathed her senses in a ead | H df fi : i ir for any one save the man who had thus Peremee es ompemeriel ber bent I It will be remembered that Fernanda Aylmer re- immediate} failure of the midnight attempt which she made to rE i E U } comicloooks. conn