The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 143: what you’re looking at

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116 THE COURT OF LONDON replaced the bridal dress that was not needed after all, she fled precipitately down-stairs and rushed from the house. Having thus frightened the Unknown away, so as to pre- vent her from meeting Lord Florimel again, at least for the present, Caroline Walters sped to the chamber which she had appropriated to her own use; and, stripping off the wed- ding-dress, — literally tearing it in pieces from her person, in her impatience to be gone, — she resumed the page’s livery. But she had no time to colour her face and hands again with the sable dye, even if such a process were any longer deemed necessary; and, congratulating herself on having been able to change her apparel ere the prisoners broke loose from the saloon in which she had confined them, she took her hurried departure. CORNIECLOOKS (E()