The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 195: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXI THE RECONCILIATION OncrE more do we find the sisters Octavia and Pauline reunited. In pursuance of the hint which she had received from the Kinchin-Grand, relative to the mode of effecting Octavia’s liberation from the madhouse, Pauline had pro- ceeded thither and demanded an interview with Doctor Burton, the proprietor of the asylum. To this individual the courageous and intrepid young lady had declared her resolution of at once applying to a magistrate unless her sister was released without a moment’s delay; and the doctor, trembling at the prospect of exposure, and. perceiving that Pauline was aware of the foul conspiracy of which Octavia was the victim, not only hastened to submit to her demand, but besought her in the most erovelling terms to pardon him for the share he had taken in the matter. Pauline was too much delighted at the restoration of her sister to freedom not to deal mercifully with the suppliant doctor; and, moreover, it was altogether foreign to her wishes to adopt any measure that was calculated to give publicity to Octavia’s disgrace. The sisters, then, were reunited after a cruel separation of a month and upwards; and the tranquillity of a few days’ enjoyment of home, together with the affectionate minis- trations and tender endearments lavished upon her by Pauline, again worked a striking and manifest improvement in the mental condition of Octavia. Still, however, did her countenance wear an expression of settled melancholy; and still was there an occasional vacancy in her looks, as if her memory failed her at intervals or grew cloudy and bewildered as she sought to fix her ideas upon some special point. It was about noon, on the day following the occurrences related in the four preceding chapters, and the sisters were 169 , CONNICOOG <S (GO)