The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 237: what you’re looking at

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CONCLUSION OF THE MYSTERIES 215 ately accounted to her for a certain mysteriousness which she observed in the manner of his London banker when some months previously she had called upon that gentleman to take references concerning her sister’s suitor. Neverthe- less, the discovery now made as to who Jocelyn really was rendered her more satisfied than ever in respect to his pro- jected alliance with Louisa. But, in the second place, she ascertained from what passed between the marquis and the prince that Loftus was a prisoner at the prefecture of police in Paris, that he had been assailed by extraordinary temptations, of which the profligate Misses Owen were made the agents, but that he had passed immaculate through the ordeal. In the third place, Venetia discovered that Louisa had been inveigled away from home, that she had been to Paris, that the marquis had brought her back, and that she was at that very moment at his mansion at Albemarle Street. Lastly, our heroine overheard Lord Leveson go on to state ‘‘that Louisa had got a sister somewhere in London, but that there was evidently a mistake relative to the accurate address of this sister’s abode.” On hearing these things, Venetia could not altogether restrain the feelings of mingled terror, indignation, and alarm which they were but too well calculated to excite in her bosom. Indeed, as the reader will recollect, she upset her wine-glass in her agitation, and precipitately quitting the room, hastened to her boudoir. There she gave unrestrained vent to her affliction; but seeing the absolute necessity of acting with a promptitude that should avert the threatened storm from breaking over her own head, she at once des- patched Jessica to Miss Bathurst to put that lady on her guard relative to the inquiries which were certain to be made in Stratton Street concerning Miss Clara Stanley. Having taken this precaution, she made up her mind how to act in other respects, and, confident of wielding immense power over the Earl of Curzon and Sir Douglas Huntingdon, she resolved to enlist their aid in carrying out the twofold purpose she had in view. One object was to rescue her sister from the clutches of the Marquis of Leveson, and the other was to effect the liberation of Jocelyn Loftus from the prefecture of police in Paris. But in the carrying out of both these aims, the utmost Geom GDoOo KS { in