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202 of prejudice imbibed through the insinuations of Mr. Arden. But when the Marquis applied, being less compromised in the affair, he was inclined to listen with due attention to his request, set forth in a point of view so interesting and touching. For which reason, what had been, under possibly some feigned pretence, so recently denied to a native, was spontaneously granted to a foreigner. Pleased with his success, and having been favoured with the address of Mrs. De Brooke, he lost no time in communicating to her the welcome tidings, in order that she might be enabled to transmit them to her husband. He then left her, overwhelmed with her thanks; rewarded also with that inward joy which never fails to accompany a humane and beneficent action.

Informed of the circumstance, Mr. Philimore set off, in the first instance, with Robert for the Bench, there to engage an apartment as commodious as a prison would admit of; in which succeeding to his satisfaction, he left Robert to make the necessary arrangements for the reception of his master. Mr. Philimore next proceeded to De Brooke, who was enduring a tedious interval of despondence and fearful anticipation of perhaps other prisoners less congenial than those who had quitted him being admitted to occupy the vacant mattresses they had