The String of Pearls (1850), p. 313

CHAPTER LXIX.
TAKES A PEEP AT ARABELLA.

We regret to leave Johanna in such a predicament, but the progress and due understanding of our tale compel us briefly to revert to some proceedings of
Arabella Wilmot, a short detail of which can nowhere come in so well as at

MRS. LOVETT ALARMED AT THE STRANGE PACES AT HER WINDOW IN THE PIE-SHOP.{Figure}

this juncture. Up to the moment of parting with Johanna, when the latter went upon her perilous interprise, Arabella had kept up pretty well, but ; from
that moment her spirits began to fail. All the romantic feelings which had at first prompted the advice that concentrated Johanna's expedition to Todd's, evaporated before the hard truthful fact that she, Arabella, had led her young