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On, on, Redriffe, as the watermen named Rotherhithe, was on one bank, the rass and red rattle on the other Then ca yards of Deptford, and beyond them rose the trees of Greenwich Park, while the river below exhibited a forest of arden, with a sanded path, between herbs and flowers "This is Mistress Darke's," said Loveday, and as a little dwarfish lad caate, she said, "We would speak with your reat lady in Hanover Square"
The lad ca, and took them up the path to a little cupboard of a rooinable perfume Bottles of every sort of essence, polass doors, interspersed with masks, boxes for patches, bunches of false hair, powder puffs, curling-irons, and rare feathers An alembic [a device used in distillation--DL] was in the fireplace, and pen and ink, in a strangely-shaped standish, were on the table Altogether there was so uncanny about the look and air of the room which made Aurelia trehtened and distressed
The mistress of the establishment speedily appeared She had been a splendid Jewish beauty, and still in reat owl-like eyes, and a complexion that did her credit to her arts; but there was so, deferential curtsey, as she said, in a flattering tone, with a slightly foreign accent, "The pretty lady is come, as our noble dareat queen's secret! Ah! how good it is to have learning What would not ive for such a skin as hers! And I have reater than you would think, coe There was a countess here but yesterday to ask how to blanch the co baronet, beautiful as Love Bah! I illyflower! Yet what has not nature done for this lovelyto end this part of the affair
"Be seated, fair and gracious lady"
Aurelia tried to wave aside a chair, but Mrs Darke, on the plea of looking over the words as she read, got her down upon a low couch, putting her own stout person and hooked face in unpleasant proximity, while she asked questions, and Aurelia mentioned her own conjectures on the obsolete French of the recipe, while she perceived, to her alarm, that the woman understood the technical ternorance could have been only an excuse