The Libertine (Volume 3-4 ) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1807. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... vering these were the minions of justice, " 1 saw not his face, --it was dark, I could not swear to his person " " But the other gentleman can," replied one of the men; " his face was then uncovered, he is but a young-man," he added with an unfeeling smile, " and has not yet learnt caution.5' " Nor can we now give him time to learn it," added the other: so saying, and thanking Angelo for his information* they rushed off at full speed in the direction he had pointed out. Chagrined and distressed that he had heen so explicit, gladly would Angelo have retracted all he had said, and wistfully did he look around, vainly anxious to behold the youth, that he might warn him of his danger. Dissatisfied with himself that he should be an involuntary means of depriving a human creature of existence, and more particularly one in whose unfortunate fate he felt some interest, he yet secretly hoped that he would-be able to elude his pursuers, and when he- remembered the spirit of the animal1 Oh which he was mounted he flattered himself this hope was not irrational. Some few days after this adventure, which had so unusually impressed the mind of Angelo, he accidentally read in a diurnal print that the highwayman who had for Borne time past infested the t.- road had successively robbed two gentlemen, and was sup-posed to have tommitted other similar oflences, bad been apprehended, and was lodged in prison. When Angelo perused this, involuntarily he felt a sensation of ex=treme regret; he decided in his mind that he would be present at his trial, but give no evidence that would tend to criminate him, for he sufficiently repented that he had alreadj', as it were, pointed him out to justice; and rather than have uttered a syllable to endanger his life he would have rejoiced in an ...