[Old Saint Paul’s by William Harrison Ainsworth]@TWC D-Link bookOld Saint Paul’s BOOK THE FOURTH 203/204
The features were pale as marble; calm in their expression, and like those of one wrapped in placid slumber.
The long fair hair hung over the side of the board.
It was a sad and touching sight. "Why, as I am a living man, it is the grocer's daughter, Amabel,--somewhile Countess of Rochester!" exclaimed Chowles. "It is, it is!" cried the earl, suddenly rushing from behind a building where he had hitherto remained concealed.
"Whither are you about to take her? Set her down--set her down." "Hinder them not, my lord," vociferated another person, also appearing on the scene with equal suddenness.
"Place her in the cart," cried Solomon Eagle--for he it was--to the bearers.
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