The Mysteries of London; or, Revelations of the British Metropolis — page 308: what you’re looking at

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Pe ty <i 7 pee, “ eo Eh 506 MYSTERIES — tures. Angela reflected that it had happened, that young and lovely girls had been violently earried off from their parents, and delivered over for vile lucre to some2perverted debauchee, The suffering girl, ivr a few seconds appeared agitated, and then she awoke withastart, When her eyelids opened, they: were the soft eyes of Anna Macfarlane which sparkled in the sun- beams. It is hardly necessary for us to inform the reader, that Anna had been placed there by the instrumentality of Bob Lantern, for which he was paid by Paterson, the steward; and that the ~ Lord’s Corner belonged to his lordship, the earl of White-Manor. On awaking this morning, Anna’s heart was joyous. The sun used to awaken herin the same manner on the fine mornings in Cornhill; she thought she was in her own room, and was en- deavouring to convince herself that she had hada horrid dream. This idea existed as long as her eyes remained covered by her hands, And then the Chevalier Bembo, who was de- vouring her with her eyes, saw her suddenly start and rise with terror. She had just returned to a sense of the horrible reality of her position. After that day the Chevalier Bembo often ap- proached this window and leaned out of it. One morning Bembo perceived something very extraordinary. The day had not yet completely dawned, Anna was sleeping in her arm chair. A door at the end of the room suddenly opened, and two men entered it. One of them carried a wax-lizght, the other completely wrapped up in 2 ~ comicbookscom, a ee ——