The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4
By Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur)
Classic work by Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur).
Table of Contents
Prisoners 1 CXI.--A Conversation 5 CXII.--The Conversation concluded ...
CONTINUATION OF THE BLACK’S VISITS TO HIS PRISONERS. Having quitted the dungeon in which Josh Pedler was confined, the Blackamoor proceeded to the next cell; but, instead of openi...
A CONVERSATION. Pass we over another month--eight weeks having now elapsed since the six prisoners were first consigned to their dungeons, and four weeks from the date of those vi...
THE CONVERSATION CONCLUDED. Upwards of a quarter of an hour had elapsed, when Dr. Lascelles returned to the apartment in which he had left the Blackamoor. “Yes,” exclaimed the ph...
ESTHER DE MEDINA AND OLD DEATH. It was on the third day after the explanations given to Dr. Lascelles, and between five and six o’clock in the evening, that Esther de Medina was c...
OLD DEATH IN THE DUNGEON. It was five o’clock in the evening of the following day; and Old Death was crouched up, like a wild beast, upon his bed in the dungeon, which was now lig...
THOMAS RAINFORD. The arrest of Tom Rain and Old Death took place at about twenty minutes to six on the evening in question; and by ten o’clock that night the news were circulated ...
OLD DEATH. When Dykes made his appearance in the room just alluded to, he found Benjamin Bones rocking himself to and fro on the chair in which he was seated, while Bingham and th...
AN EXPLANATORY CONVERSATION. Three days had elapsed since that eventful evening on which so many exciting incidents occurred; and the scene now changes to the dwelling of Dr. Lasc...
THE INSOLVENT DEBTORS’ COURT. Passing through Portugal Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, you may perceive a low, dingy-looking building, protected by a row of tall iron railings, and ...
THE EXAMINATION OF MR. FRANK CURTIS. Captain O’Blunderbuss surveyed his friend with a degree of admiration amounting almost to envy, as the latter leapt nimbly into the box; but w...
THE LAPSE OF NINETEEN YEARS. How easy is it to record upon paper the sweeping words--“Nineteen years had passed away since the occurrences just related:”--how easy is it with a fe...
MR. HATFIELD. In the meantime Sir John Lascelles had repaired to the library in the Earl of Ellingham’s mansion; and there he found, as he had anticipated, his friend Mr. Hatfield...
TWO OF THE READER’S OLD FRIENDS. Bucklersbury--a tortuous street, leading from Cheapside to Walbrook--abounds in dining-rooms, where for fifteen pence the “City man” can procure a...
A MAN OF BUSINESS. Mr. Bubbleton Styles was a gentleman of about fifty years of age. Short, thin, dapper, and active,--with a high, bald forehead, and small restless, twinging eye...
CHARLES HATFIELD. It was past midnight; and in only one chamber throughout the Earl of Ellingham’s spacious mansion was a light still burning. In that chamber Charles Hatfield wa...
THE PROJECTED RAILWAY COMPANY. It was striking ten by all the clocks at the West End, on the morning of the day following the incidents which have occupied the five preceding chap...
ELUCIDATIONS. At the conclusion of the hundred and twenty-fourth chapter we asked whether Charles Hatfield would succeed in crushing the sentiments of curiosity that had been awak...
THE WANDERERS. The night on which Charles Hatfield made the important discoveries detailed in the preceding chapter, was marked by other events of a scarcely less interesting natu...
THE JOURNEY CONTINUED AND CONCLUDED. Perdita and her mother exchanged not a word until they reached the high road once more; but when their faces were again turned towards London,...
THE ADVERTISING AGENT. On the day after the one the incidents of which have just been related, Mr. Bubbleton Styles called, precisely as the clock struck eleven in the forenoon, u...
PERDITA. A week had elapsed since the arrival of Mrs. and Miss Fitzhardinge in the great metropolis; and as yet they appeared to be no nearer to an acquaintanceship with Charles H...
THE SYREN’S ARTS AND CHARMS. On gaining the street, Charles Hatfield hurried along like one demented,--positively reeling with the influence which Perdita’s charms, allurements, a...
THE DANGEROUS SOPHISTRY OF A LOVELY WOMAN. “You are now about to discover a new phasis in my character, dear Charles; and perhaps you will look upon my notions and opinions as unm...
A THRONE SURROUNDED BY REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS. The entertainment was of the most splendid description--worthy of the hospitality and taste of the noble host and hostess. The Pri...
A PAINFUL SCENE. We deemed it advisable to break as little as possible, by comment or extraneous explanation, the thread of the Prince of Montoni’s discourse upon the reform that ...
CHARLES HATFIELD AND MRS. FITZHARDINGE. It was a little after twelve o’clock when Charles Hatfield reached the house in Suffolk Street. “Is Miss Fitzhardinge at home?” he enquire...
INFATUATION. Perdita was dressed in a more modest and, to speak truly, in a more delicate manner than on either of the former occasions when Charles had seen her. A plain morning ...
TWO MORE OLD ACQUAINTANCES. It was about eight o’clock in the evening of the same day when these scenes took place, that an old man, coming from a northern direction, entered the ...
THE MONEY-LENDER. Mrs. and Miss Fitzhardinge were attired in the plainest possible manner, so that they seemed to be some poor tradesman’s wife and daughter. But the moment the li...
THE MISER ALONE IN HIS DWELLING. Having carefully barred and bolted the street-door, Percival entered the front room, and assured himself that the shutters were safely fastened. ...
FRESH SCENES AND MORE TROUBLES AT HOME. While the discovery of the assassination of the old miser was being made in Pentonville, as just related, a scene of some interest occurred...
THE FLIGHT. Upon breaking away from the presence of his father, in the manner already described, Charles Hatfield hurried to the house in Suffolk Street; and bursting into the roo...
THE DRESS-MAKER: A LOVE STORY. “It was between nine and ten o’clock on a dark and rainy night, in the month of November, 1834, that a young female, plainly but decently attired, w...
every thing that had taken place at Mr. Richardson’s, and conclude by requesting that good woman to accompany her forthwith to Camden Town. This desire was complied with; and away ...
CONCLUSION OF THE HISTORY OF THE DRESS-MAKER: A LOVE STORY. “Two days after Lady Caroline Jerningham’s letter had been sent, the Marquis of Wilmington arrived in London; and, hast...
DOVER. It must not be supposed that this long tale was related without an interval of rest. When it broke off at the end of the hundred and forty-second chapter, the travellers we...
A MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.--THE JOURNEY CONTINUED. Our travellers rose early in the morning; for the French mail steamer, _Le Courier_, was to start for Calais at nine o’clock. Bre...
TWO UNPLEASANT LODGERS. In the meantime certain little incidents had occurred in London, which we must faithfully chronicle before we proceed with the adventures of the newly marr...
THE CAPTAIN’S LUDICROUS ADVENTURE. Mr. Curtis arose at a very early hour--at least for him,--it being only eight o’clock when he sallied forth with the intention of seeking Mr. Bu...
THE CHARTER HOUSE. Captain O’Blunderbuss, having made himself thus far comfortable, wrote a note to Curtis, which Mr. Scales despatched by a messenger to Mr. Bubbleton Styles’s of...
A STRANGE NARRATIVE. The nurse was a tall, middle-aged, powerfully-built woman, with brawny arms, and a countenance that indicated a slight affection for an occasional drop of “so...
THE COLONEL AND THE CAPTAIN. The captain related to Frank all the numerous and varied incidents which had occurred during the forenoon of that eventful day; and the listener not u...
THE CALM.--THE TEMPEST. Return we now to Charles Hatfield and Perdita. The gorgeous lustre of a Parisian summer morning streamed through the muslin curtains of a handsome chamber...
THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE SON’S WIFE. The magnificent creature whom Mr. Hatfield now beheld for the first time, had perhaps never shone to greater advantage than on the present...
FATHER AND SON. Mr. Hatfield found his son waiting for him in the coffee-room; and, entering the _citadine_, or one-horse hackney-coach, in which the former had arrived, they proc...
MRS. FITZHARDINGE. Return we now to Mrs. Fitzhardinge, whom the officers of justice had arrested at Dover, on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Mr. Percival, the miser...
THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER. On arriving at the hotel indicated, Mrs. Fitzhardinge alighted, and inquired of the porter whether Mr. and Mrs. Hatfield were residing there. The man refe...
THE HALF-BROTHERS. It was about five o’clock in the evening of the second day after the incidents just related, that the Earl of Ellingham received a note, the address of which wa...
POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS.--THE DEPARTURE OF CHARLES HATFIELD. Yes--it was true that the Prince of Montoni had become Grand Duke of Castelcicala; and those who have read the First Se...
Mrs. Mortimer in London. Mrs. Mortimer,--as we must now call her whom we have already known as Mrs. Slingsby, Mrs. Torrens, and Mrs. Fitzhardinge,--arrived in London two days afte...
MRS. MORTIMER’S ADVENTURES CONTINUED. The individual alluded to was a man of middle height, of rather spare form, and slightly bowed--so that although his years in reality had sca...
THE HUSBAND AND WIFE. The place where the husband and wife met thus, after a separation of upwards of nineteen years, was what the poor term “a kitchen,” but which rather merited ...
AGNES VERNON AND HER FATHER. We must now return to the cottage near Streatham, were we left the beautiful and artless Agnes Vernon with her father. The moment the old woman had q...
LAURA IN PARIS. We must now return for a short time to the beautiful, but licentious and profligate Laura, whom we left in Paris. Although she reckoned materially upon her mother...
LAURA AND ROSALIE. Yes--it was a great triumph for Laura Mortimer,--a triumph all the greater, inasmuch as she knew that the agitation and rage of her husband could not speedily p...
LAURA’S AMOUR. Seating herself upon the sofa, Laura motioned the Italian to place himself by her side--an invitation which he obeyed with a species of enthusiastic alacrity. But a...
LORD WILLIAM TREVELYAN. The scene changes to the residence of Lord William Trevelyan in Park Square. It was evening, and the young nobleman was pacing up and down in an elegantly...
A SKETCH OF TWO BROTHERS.--A MYSTERY. The nobleman’s cab was got ready in a very few minutes; and while he is driving rapidly along towards Piccadilly, we will place on record som...
THE LAWYER. Mr. James Heathcote, the attorney, was seated at a writing-table covered with papers, in his private office. He was wrapped in a loose dressing-gown, and his feet were...
THE NOBLEMAN AND THE LAWYER. On entering into the presence of Mr. Heathcote, the handsome visitor tendered his card; and the moment the lawyer cast his eyes upon it, a cloud passe...
A SCENE. Lord William entered his cab, and drove rapidly away towards Kentish Town. It was mid-day when he reached the abode of Mrs. Sefton--for his interview with the attorney h...
AGNES AND MRS. MORTIMER. In the meantime Mrs. Mortimer had not been idle. Possessed of the letter which had been entrusted to her, she repaired in a hired vehicle to the immediat...
JACK RILY, THE DOCTOR. The individual who thus intruded himself upon the presence of the affrighted woman, was about forty years of age--of middle height--somewhat stout--and of p...
A MAIDEN’S FIRST LOVE. The day, the incidents of which we are describing, and which are so numerous and diversified, was destined to be a memorable one in the life of Agnes Vernon...
HOPES FULFILLED. Without pausing to reflect upon the step which she was taking--forgetful of all the injunctions she had received from her father, and all the promises of prudence...
A NIGHT OF TERRORS. The two ladies hastened to console--or, speaking with greater accuracy, endeavoured to console the weeping girl. But, although she knew how friendly disposed t...
THE HAUNTED HOUSE IN STAMFORD STREET. We must now carry our narrative backward for a few hours, in order to explain the incident which has just been described. At the corner of S...
SCENES IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE. At five-and-twenty minutes past ten, on this eventful night, Mrs. Mortimer entered the narrow lane leading from the Blackfriars Road into Collingwood ...
HISTORY OF THE HAUNTED HOUSES IN STAMFORD STREET. Twenty-five years ago there were not three nicer looking houses in Stamford Street than those which are now so dilapidated and so...
CONCLUSION OF THE HISTORY OF THE HAUNTED HOUSES. Three years had elapsed since the occurrences just related; and it was on a fine summer afternoon that a tall, handsome young sold...
THE GHOST.--AGNES AND MRS. MORTIMER. The preceding episode has run to a considerable length; but we hope and believe that our readers will experience no difficulty in resuming the...
AGNES AND TREVELYAN. In spite of her anxiety to place confidence in Mrs. Mortimer--in spite of the deep obligation under which she believed herself to be lying towards her, Agnes ...
EXPLANATIONS. The reader need scarcely be informed that if Lord William were amazed at the discovery of the relationship subsisting between two ladies whom he had hitherto deemed ...
LAURA MORTIMER’S NEW INTRIGUES. We must now return to Laura Mortimer, whom we left in Paris, and of whom we have lost sight for some time. It was in the evening of the fourth day...
AN UNEXPECTED VISIT AND A DREADED ARRIVAL. The moment Laura heard the outer door close behind the Marquis of Delmour, she exclaimed aloud, “I have triumphed! I have triumphed! He ...
LAURA AND HER MOTHER.--ANOTHER INTERRUPTION. “Here I am in Paris once more, Perdita--Laura, I mean,” said the old woman, without moving from the seat which she had taken, and with...
THE LAWYER’S HEAD CLERK. It was about four o’clock in the afternoon of the day following the incidents just related, that Mr. James Heathcote, the lawyer, was seated at his writin...
DR. SWINTON. The mad-house kept by Dr. Swinton was a spacious building, with a large garden, surrounded by a high wall, at the back. It was by no means a gloomy-looking place, al...
THE LUNATIC ASYLUM. Almost immediately after the departure of Mr. Smithson, supper was served up in a spacious and handsomely-furnished apartment. The table literally groaned ben...
THE CONFESSIONS OF A LUNATIC. “My blood has been boiling like a lava-stream. It appears to me as if I can now freely respire the fresh air, after having only breathed by gasps. Wh...
SCENES IN THE LUNATIC ASYLUM. Thus terminated the extraordinary manuscript which Lord William Trevelyan found in the wardrobe, and the perusal of which occupied him nearly two hou...
A SCENE IN A CAB. “Ginthlemen,” exclaimed the gallant Irishman, “I mane to inthroduce myself and frind to ye without any more bother or pother. My frind, then, ginthlemen, is Mist...
THE OLD MARQUIS AND THE YOUNG LORD. “My lord, you are a man of honour, I have heard,” began the Marquis, without any prefatory observations; “and I feel assured that you will at o...
MRS. MORTIMER IN LONDON AGAIN. “This is really most fortunate, my lords!” exclaimed the old woman, as she entered with a smirking countenance and a self-sufficient air. “I wished ...
JACK RILY AND MRS. MORTIMER. The individual whom Mrs. Mortimer thus unexpectedly and unpleasantly encountered, had made a considerable improvement in his personal appearance durin...
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER AGAIN. It was about five o’clock in the evening of the same day on which these events occurred, that Laura Mortimer and the Count of Carignano, attended by Ros...
HORRORS. It will be recollected that Mrs. Mortimer was far from being unprovided with money--her share of the spoil obtained from Torrens still being in her possession, with the t...
RESOLUTIONS. We must now return to Lord William Trevelyan, who, in pursuance of the promise made to the Marquis of Delmour, proceeded, the moment after that nobleman had left him,...
THE MARQUIS OF DELMOUR. On the following morning, Lord William Trevelyan called upon the Marquis of Delmour, whom he found pacing his apartment in great agitation. The old noblem...
CASTELCICALA. Turn we now to the State of Castelcicala--that lovely land which lies between the northern frontiers of the Neapolitan dominions and the southern confines of the Pap...
THE MARCHIONESS OF DELMOUR. The Marquis of Delmour awoke, as it were from a deep trance; and, opening his languid eyes, he beheld a female form bending over him. He attempted to s...
JACK RILY AND THE LAWYER’S CLERK. It was about nine in the evening, and Mr. John Rily, _alias_ the Doctor, was seated in his chamber at the house in Roupel Street, smoking his pip...
MR. HEATHCOTE AND HIS CLERK. It was five o’clock in the morning of the day after the interview described in the last chapter; and Mr. Heathcote was seated at the writing-table in ...
JACK RILY AND VITRIOL BOB. Mr. Green had so well managed matters in respect to the Bank-notes, that in the course of a few hours he had contrived to obtain cash for about twelve t...
THE BENGAL ARMS.--RENEWED WANDERINGS. The parlour at the Bengal Arms is--or at least was at the time whereof we are writing--a long, low, dingy room, very dark in the day-time and...
THE CATASTROPHE. It was two o’clock in the morning when the Doctor and Vitriol Bob ascended Shooter’s Hill. Both were much fatigued--but the former far more so than the latter. ...
THE CASTELCICALAN REPUBLIC. Castelcicala became a Republic; and Richard Markham had the immortal honour of founding a purely democratic government in the finest State belonging to...
CHARLES HATFIELD IN LONDON AGAIN. The information which Charles Hatfield had received respecting his father’s health, was too true. Indeed, the accounts were purposely mitigated i...
MR. GREEN’S OFFICE. On the same morning, and at about the same time that Charles Hatfield and Captain Barthelma thus encountered each other in Regent Street, certain incidents of ...
PERDITA, THE LOST ONE! IT was about three o’clock in the afternoon when Laura reached the villa on Westbourne Terrace; and, having laid aside her bonnet and handsome furs, she pro...
MR. GREEN’S MISSION. In the meantime Mr. Green had taken a cab, and ordered himself to be driven to the mansion of the Earl of Ellingham in Pall Mall. While he was proceeding thi...