The Mysteries of London; or, Revelations of the British Metropolis — page 266: what you’re looking at

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964 MYSTERIES you a large sum, for you did not soon return to the house in Goodman’s Fields; but I did not forget you. It was in the Park that I met you the second time. I instantly recogdized you among the gentlemen who filled the ride, and my heart leaped toward you. You were in your elegant riding dress; and as an expert cavalier, gracefully mastering the im- petuosity of your steed, who appeared to be co- quettishly dancing on the gravelled road. _ During the first days of my love, I often wept ; and when my father surprised me weeping, he said : Patience, Susannah, patience; we will take good care of you, my daughter, and in a few days - ¥ will take you to a place where you can make your choice. He kept his word, and one evening took me to a place where I might have chosen. But it was not with this purpose that he first took me there. He calculated upon me to play a part in a come- dy, by which he hoped to forward one of his spe- culations, You will, perhaps, recollect, sir, the nocturnal repast, at which Ishmael stated to his Jewish brethren, the benefit he hoped L would be of to him. He said, that he was in want of a syren, to attract rich men to his gambling house, This was not true; for the splendid saloons of the Gold Club were always full of beautiful women, attired like queens: Nevertheless, it is to be imagined that these women did not suffice; for Ishmael de- termined to make sure of me, and make me play the part of a syren, He had conceived a plan, which would he at ence striking and theatrical ; # Eomicbooks.com