The Mysteries of London; or, Revelations of the British Metropolis — page 140: what you’re looking at

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138 MYSTERING tion to the finale of the second act, which they were just then singing. Mr. de Lancaster, however, rushed: down the staircase, and did not stop till he had reached the streef. John, cried he, The cab which had brought him was waitingat a short distance. My box and my jacket, John, rejoined Brian, hastily stripping off his elegantly made dress coat, as he advanced toward the cab. John drew from the vehicle a waiter’s jacket and white apron, such as are worn by people who attend in the saloons of the French theatres, Brian de Lancaster put on the jacket, tied on the apron, tied under his arm a flat square box, which John handed to him, and then ran up the Steps into the the theatre, CHAPTER XX, Brian de Lancaster was the youngest son ofthe | late Hugh de Lancaster, Earl of White Manors — and had early in life found himself in that false, — and almost intolerable position, which is the lot — of the youngest sons of the nobility, who have — notentered the church. Brought upinthe enjoy= — ment of almost regal opulence, he found himself, — upon the death of his father, suddenly reduced to — a position of comparative poverty, His brother, © thanks to the law of primogeniture, sueceeded to the peerage, and to nine tenths of the family pro- Comicbooks.com