The Mysteries of London; or, Revelations of the British Metropolis — page 312: what you’re looking at

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310 MYSTERIES carriage, without arms upon the panels, was standing before it. At the moment that Bembo got into the street, armed and resolved, let it cost what it might to get into the house, he saw two servants carrying the man with the fur-trimmed great coat in their arms. The latter gave no signs of life, With some difficulty they lifted him into the carriage, and one of the men remained there with him. The carriage drove on rapidly, The door of the house wasthen closed immediately. Bembo ran back as quickly as possible to his nost. His absence had lasted only a few minutes. The few minutes he had been absent had suffi- ced to render completely unavailing his six long days of watching. Rio Santo had succumbed, — Bembo had remained in the position which we have described in a preceding chapter, with the marquis’s head resting on his breast, and over- whelmed with that sort of stupsfaction which sometimes deadens the first emotions of anguish. Lovely had laid himself down by the side of his master, with his head upon his shoulder, and was looking at him, Suddenly, the dog started and barked. At the same time, Bembo thought he felt the breathing of Rio Santo on the back of his hand—but it was so slight. He rang for the servants, who immediately hastened in, Let some one go for a physician—a phyaeeas instantly ! Doctor Moore is in my lord’s study said one of them. Doctor Moore was in fact in the immediately summoned to attend, study, and was 4 com. M