The Mysteries of the Court of London Vol. 7 — page 284: what you’re looking at

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morse |—-thage were ipoompatible with sich a dig- tenant hae spoken mopt, positively; apd I cannct as ah’s| but concur with hie opinion. Perbaps in one er mind wes mede up how to act. At present | sonse it is fortunate for er that che should have aup felt hargelf toa weak and feeble to move from | lost the memory of the misdeeds which she hes her couch: bat she was resolved to take the ear- , committed ; thqugh in another sense it may be un- lieat opportualtys nos merely to egcape from the { pofoptunate,—for if thin qtate of mental turpye villa, but likewise to carry out all her orjgingl | shoyld pqntinue, ahe will bavp no Pr portunst to plane of vengeance. In tho meanwhile it was | repent of her sina. But 93 I was obpepving, it ic ecpssary to djssemble.. She must give nu sign of | po longer needful, my dear Chrigtipa, to wateh 50 consciousness—of elee she would be questioned by | continuously over her, . toyiged you will eyerr the Queen s perhaps she would be reprosched P—- | naw, and thep: visit the chamber during my ab- at all events it suited her purpose in every way to | wens, {6'f9 sufficient. Incteed, 1 was thin! ing that simulate a prolonged uucopsciquensss of every: | if during the two or three hours I ney be away thing that was passing around her. from the’ ville’ you would de me @ little sof- ces"? ; : Pr ’ ek ‘ Thus several days clapsed; and during this methine.” dear ledyt” a: slot riod Sagounah ao well played her part, that noong| “Anything, dear Jac a ae ne, who enterod ber chamber entertained the remote who te altaya realy "to y tier grytal de- suepicion how vividly the lizht of reason had flame vation to her at whoss hands hd had rpoelyed a0 up ‘again. It was as if a lamp were burning within. ‘many benefits. a . ' a tub whioh the unsuspicious passer-by conceived | “tis one of the little services,” continued the to be inwardly plunged into obscurity. , Sagonnah | Queép, “ which Sagoooaly hereqlf was wont fo per- felt her strength rapidly increasing; and she soan|form—-L wasn, tl agement of my jewel saw that the moment wag appronching when shed casketa, They ‘réquive freqyént quprrvision, and must put into execution her project of égcane. The | likewlse to be tbiuched by a dpfidate hand; so that medical attendant declared that physically ele was | it is to none ofthe domestics that 1 can entrust past ali danger; but he expressed to the Queen] the duty.” . ee aod Christina hisapprehension that hep reason was| “IG aball be performed tp the best’ of my gune tur ever—this being the only hypothesis ¢o | ability,” reepouded Qhrietings “and I hope to account for that seemigy absence af consciousness | your ladyphip’s eatiefaetion.” which the wily and treacherous Sagoonah ao effeq- | Thia dialogue, as wo hava said, tok place in tually simulated. And she heard the pbservations | Saguonah’#’ chamber,—the Queen and her young which were thus made by the side of her couch; | friend being utterly unsuspiciope that every syl- and never once did a muscle of her face move sus: | lable was perfeetly comprehended by the ayeh. piciously—never once did a rush of blood to her | The nurae was absent at the moments but sho checks betray her knowledge of what was thas | apevdily made’ her appearence; and while Indora passing arcund her. Surgeon, Queen, Christina, | tvok her departure in the earringe to pay the in- nurse,—all were deceived !—all imagined that Sa- | toned visit 6a Miss Vincent, Christ{ng repaired goonah rematned in utter ignorance of Ler position! | to her Mnjesty’s buudgir to commencp the task of They knew not that within that apparently uacon- | inepecting aud arranging tho gems and jewels of scious form the darkest passions were agitating— | ineatymable price which, belonged to her royal be- the déepns, clemgns were being formed —and the | nefactress. vitality gf the intellect had sprung up with 49 uy-| Spgoonuh vow felt that hor opportunity was at impaired power, hand. Thore she lay, to all appesrande’ in a pro- D.uye pnased, as we have said, since her return | fosed torpur,~-the elderly nurse entertaining no to consciousness; and Saguonah was now watebing | notion to the contrary. it has been said thet an opportunity of escape. It failod not to present ; there aro certain reptiles whieh siroulute death in itsolf. One morning after breakfast, when both | order the more easily to secure their intended the Quoen and Christina were in tho Hindgo | victims; gnd thus was jt that the treacherous woran’s chawber, the following brief dialogue took | Hindoo ‘wom@h, like one of the moat designing place. gud deadly serpents of hor own native chimo, was ‘1 is my purpose, dear Christina,” said the | pifecting gomplete inanimation of the intellest, Queen, “to pay the promised visit this forenoon to | though all the while endowed with the fullest Musy Isabella Vincent. You know that L assured : mental vitality. your brother I would take the earliest opportunity ; The eklerly nurse busied hersolf in putting tho to form that young lady’s acquaintance; aud indeed, ; chamber in order; and then, hearing the clock 1 begin to feel the want of a jittle change of air | pruclajm the hour of midday, she knew it was the and temporary reercation, no matter how brief!" | time to procure the refreshment whieh she was “It is exceedingly kind of you, dear Jady,” an- | wont to administer to her pationt. 1¢ was her awered Christina, “to think of one in whom my | custom to leave the room only when the Queen or biother is so much interested; and I am rejoiced | Obristina should bo provewt: but on this vocasion , that you are about ty seck some little recreation. [ | she happened to defiato from her rvle—and thas will remain with Sagoonah during your ladyship’s | all the more completely favoured the projects of absence. Nout fura single moment will I leave | the ayab. Indora was absent—Christina was ep- the chamber, nor abandon her to the stle care of | gaged—Sagounah seemed wrapped up in mental tho nurse.” torpor: the nurse saw not thé slightest harm in It is not so necessary, my doar Christian,” re- | descending to the kitehen to procure what she re- plied the Queen, “to be as particular now as we | quired. The ayah watted a few minutes to see were wont to be in the first instance.’ There can | whether anybarly would comes but the nurse sent be no doubt that Sagoonsh’s reason is gone—and | no one to take her place temporarily—end Sa- it may bo for ever! On this point the medical at- | goonah was not long ere sho availed herself of the a CT Ke SD aay TUE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. aT * co] ceria ee eee Ee oF EO ee, GE ee ee ee ees See ee eee ee = ae a i i, SC CT ie, Gee -w ee nt —— ne eo ee eae ECOMMICOOOKS.EO