The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 303: what you’re looking at

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A NIGHT WITH A MURDERED MAN 269 previous eight hours Mrs. Brace had not only committed a murder but had passed every moment of that period alone with the corpse of her victim. And who that passed by the house that morning and saw all the usual preparations being made for the commercial business of the day, the shop windows decked out with bonnets of the newest shape, caps of the most coquettish fashion, and lace collars of the most costly species, and then, glancing into the shop itself, that bevy of charming young women all wearing so modest a demeanour and all attired with such exquisite neatness, who, we ask, that thus beheld the establishment of Mrs. Brace that morn, could have possibly suspected that there was the corpse of a murdered man in the house? : (GO) Anyi DOO