The Mysteries of the Court of London by Pauline Clarendon — page 305: what you’re looking at

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302 THE COURT OF LONDON “While you are talking thus, the letter will singe,” said Julia, somewhat impatiently. ‘ Let us see what it contains, and debate upon it afterward.” “We will, my dear,’ answered Mr. Page. Then, placing the document before him upon the table, he read it aloud, in slow and measured terms: “ July 7, 1794. Evening, 6 o’clock. ‘“ My little note of this morning has prepared you for the receipt of this; and you must now Judge whether it is worth while for you to compel old Lightfoot by foul means to sur- render up his half of the paper, since he refuses to do so by fair means. T. M. has procured a copy of the half which is in the possession of the individual who employs him in the business; and thus it runs: ‘“may concern, and know ye, all the undersigned, George Prince of cknowledge that I do now take wife in the sight of an all-seeing ewise undersigned Miss Hannah nderly and devotedly love with ul, and who fully as sincerely, me in return, with all her true w likewise, all persons whom nly and sacredly bind and pledge ght of an all-seeing heaven, that shall so dispose the. heart of my as to grant his royal and paternal ssion to the proper celebration signed Miss Hannah Lightfoot, — at refusal which so very sorely sion to the royal throne of se (which God long prevent!) lay, make her my wife and Queen: dy consider ourselves to be tly and severally set our hands sence of a competent witness, a seven hundred and fifty-seven. GEORGE P. HaNNAH LIGHTFOOT.’ ECORNIELOOOKS (E(©) m