The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 142: what you’re looking at

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116 THE COURT OF LONDON replaced the bridal dress that was not needed after all, she fled precipitately down-stairs and rushed from the house. Having thus frightened the Unknown away, so as to pre- vent her from meeting Lord Florimel again, at least for the present, Caroline Walters sped to the chamber which she had appropriated to her own use; and, stripping off the wed- ding-dress, — literally tearing it in pieces from her person, in her impatience to be gone, — she resumed the page’s livery. But she had no time to colour her face and hands again with the sable dye, even if such a process were any longer deemed necessary; and, congratulating herself on having been able to change her apparel ere the prisoners broke loose from the saloon in which she had confined them, she took her* hurried departure. CONNIEIOOKS (E(O)