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ee affiction he experienced on his brother's alf. “What! is there compavy here to-night?” he inquired, in a wild vacant manner, of ote of the footmen. “Yes, my lord. Your Grace iitst rethember that this was the evening fixed for thd ocedsioit. But shell I inform her Grace that yout lordship hes returned P” 3, “No, no—not now!” responded Maréhnott itsbatiently: and reeling round like s drudken he issued forth the palatial residence, 6 domestics looked ib each obfth staking thai heads hall-ozuts! aan , hale. I doimpsalctialaly, ad if they feared hé h ie nad. ordered — ED s-seeeen: Pera a= 7 —_S® Ea = ate The Duke entered sacther bab, | 8 af By driver to take him td the he stopped at the Pret of Mr and knocked 4: ; test Shad file rte coe puely «a eM has gone into the wont) “Impossible! I telt hins this aftérnooh—=2” “Tt is quite ide, my oe hot tm tab. | along with tbcthor ae sia ee W necessitics t into & did not —but esid (RED he bhould write and tay comilig Wgain.” “thto the coutitéy hid ‘whoule man, “Mr. Ardista ge vatng } Hos ty ou carpet. when it wad bret hid, Ke said. cait'te o0t gous a ot awey for some {} fa ‘the 0 myn who wi 1 yet gentishiah P” inquired rant ‘ teas $ wi a my pe” weed Ihe eer- Pdtv? Was in euch Weir, ee tabhed ne Dek =f froti ee San Pu-Otitoeed te cab. Twice did the driver abt Kien GRItheE Lids pi to proceed, without a ig. ie the third cocasion 6 iy ba ab odie 1 which Wi abruptly jerked for elicited the monos lable, The Duke knew not what to t3ink of thts sad- den departure of Armytage. He could,not Hatter himeclf that Armytage had contrived to settle with Me. Ooleman and get out of his clutches, Without having to rhake the ré¢élations ghich had sht from his lips: for if it were so, Army- tage % wo d have been to him to dlaim the promised reward. On the other hatid, the wretohed Duke's ro pirh éii that Atinytage @Was kept in « sort y by Ooléinai, in otder td be brought otward bo give lis évidénoé When thé trial should take place. tndsed, Marchuiont was in that state of mind in which hé dated hope nothing, bat was to troinble at ovety things the most grovelling beggar in the étréets was " the enjoy- ry of an ian state of milid ik eum Beart of a ducal ddronet. Mirchmont Hoss, thé Dako was fale ing state in the cab} BY wad borne partment, and wad doon raving in the de- a siete | thea vey nde hail spréad asivnget este that Lo andoi wis afreated we guee for ela the Duchesé wis thodt pain- fally affected s she received the sympathies of her NP ‘oie inquired ony tad ae abit, QPRawaae.m © 6Gy ae cee ee eee Gee eee -e Geen he eee - THE MYSTERIES Of TH COURT. friends — and the brilliant assemblage broke up rematurely,—the grand supper that was provided, ternaitiing untouched. Aitd now Lavinia was called upon to minister by the aide of that couch on which her husband was tavitig madly with the brain’s fiery fever. é OHAPTER OXXXIX. ReMoRSE. Ritval we to Bagoohals, whom we loft issuing From the police-office after #hé had heard the abe i PFonounce the comiittal of Lord Clan- owgate. have seen that tho words pretiounced by Attorney, to thn effect that the Ayah might be to the chastisenibht of her 6Wi wdiscience, Wroducéd & suddén and poderfil itipression ot her Bild. It wad dite of those dpeoles of Aibh being thrown odb in vettain cir- veal touch a particular chord in the heart, ea to pribrite painfully. Thus was it Bapsokab, Bove tniy burt to hate: but When abred, ad @ nedtidered, cWréaks its Yeiigeance, i ig all the tone susceptible of a apeedy and Hoigndit Peiidrse. And thus agat Wab it with Sigoonah, She Wetit forth from the golléd-office ; alid the miukhoty of that thréat haunted her. It sbpeated td have fhstetied upoll her brain: it clung r like & cutee. Bhé wandéfed oh, unconsclotis as weil us reck- less of the f fe which she wa} taking: the ex- craciations = thorse were stringthening within we al. thought of hes devotedly she had Clomedt Redcliffe—voF how gloriously hani- a he Was Wei fret the knot hidi—atd of the kindstdé With Which KY Wib wonb to speak to her. Sie thotight of that Hoyal midtress who bad loved f—Who had tadde her a confidante—who had Gver treated her With so dinéh affectionate tender- nets—lnd who hid even pasedd days and nights by thé aide of her vouch when redeeming her from that déath whith might have otherwise ensued from the blow dealt by the aseassin’s knife. Of all these things Sagoonah thought; and her soul was rent with bitterest remorse for the deed of which she had been guilty. ° She knew that the penalty of murder is death s® | —. and without pausing to estimate or conjecture the value of Lord Clandon's denial of the charge, she was only too paitifully adsured that he would be brotidunced guilty. She would now have given worlds to recall what she hed done: she had sud- denly recovered as it wete from the access of fréusy—the madness, in which she had taken so frivhtfal a step againet him. She pictured to her- wolf all the horrors of thé dcaffold; and though shé had hover witnessed a public execution, yet her torbid faiagination not merely conjured up all the real’ horrors thereof, but supplied fanciful ones to exthanve the niental agony with which she was inspited. She awoke likewise as it were toa conwidtisness of her own postition. She waa penni- leti=-shd Was houteless: she had Yenounced 4 happy hotie—had desefted a kind mistress—and had brotight herself to the point of wanting food. Still suffeying from her récent illness, she was 6 Beare es SS = eee Sp agra aap SS (CO) ECOMRniclacae