The Mysteries of the Court of London Vol. 7 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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iS \ THR MYSTERIZD OF THE COURT. positions—nor could better models have been se lecte . Yet there was nothing of the absolute grossnegs of the ordinary houses of infamy, nor of the man- same time drawing forth hie remaining weapon, which he did not however immediately uge. But finding that the assassin, goaded by his desperate circumstances,’ was Heeling moro than he was enabled to follow, he discharged @he of the | ner of thelr inmates, discernible in that room nor bullets of the double-barreled pistul, with the aim | on the part of those four young women. The and intent of wounding thé raffian in the leg. The | furniture was all sumptuous—lJuxurious too, bell missed; and on sped Barnvy: The second | sven to the carrying-out of oriental ‘ideas of such bullies was sent fiying after bith: this likewise luaury: but no immodest* pictires were sus- failed. But all of a sudden the rivet revealed | pended to the walls—it might have been a room itself in ite quiskalver brightness ty Ms. Hedeliffe’s |in any palatial mansion the respectability of view, Hu heatd footsteps behiad biai—a glancd | whivh was above the breath of sedhdal. Besides, thrown over his shouldér, showed him the the | there was an clegance of sibs and an air of ro- lagdiotd was following—and he exclaimed, * Quick, | finement presidiay ote the entire appointments quick! he is in cur power |” | of the rvoin ; while the siddbourd was covered with But the muxt isomendthe Burker plunged into | the oliviesst wihed aud the thost delicate onfer- theriver. His dark form was seen for a inoment | tienaty, ue Well as & vatioty of fulta—but there Wtruggling amidet the eddies which hia lod ti @he nO dager ruthing on the part of the young thus created; end then it disappeared ‘the | fettales to (his sideboard; and the tempting re- view. A veny little lower dowh, a sow GF ftves' frevhinents femained there eatmparstively ufi- skirted each bank, overhangity the river eo fir as | hesded,—thus evidencing that the inmates of the to shut out the clear starlight, and thtis throw] room Were abcustomed to these and all bther all that portion of the stream fof’ a couple of | luxuries. hundred yards into the deepest, blackedt gloom.; The, %e for the attitudes of the girls them- is true tbat, ae we have already said, they Redeliffe and the landlord hurried along the bath, | sély straining their eyes to peep through the deriso | wete Faplete with a vdluptuous abandonwent and lidge and eatch a glimpee if possible of thw | the charms of those luvély creatures Weré most ators beneath—but all in vain. Nelibet heurd | merettiviously displayed, Btjll, even hero there they any sound like that of a struggling or bats | Was @ gloss of refoditient over all—an elegant tling form in those waters; and amidet that depth | polish which showed that they bad all boda ladies of gloom they ran #o and fro along thy bank | caed, iu the common adviptanoe of thd tefni, what- within and beyond the range of tho tross~Red- | ever nate’ they iwerited now.” The goud-breeding sliffe being ready at the first appearahds of thé | whiel fiom their infaisy was their's, was dis- Burker to spring in and grapple with him. But | vefnible in their manvers; there wae outhing im- nd farther tate was discovered of the tiusderur. pre in their discourse-—-tor had thelt looks the Hardihood of a gross and valgas harlotry. y —— Foe a scone of iniguity, it was cartainly one of the tnost fascinating that could possibly bo prevented Q@HAPTER La&xxYVi.- bu ihe view; aud certainly the best composed and e the best appoltited if wil ite details within the e THR POUR SYRENS. limits of the wiodetn Hatiylod. Bus thon Ma ‘ame 2 °° Angelique Ket sret taker grea’ pride in what she Tan ovate dhéages $o the sumptucus establish. | was prosuittpucts ehough to style the “ respecta- ment of Angelique in Londen; atid we | bility” of hue establishment; and as she treated must again introduve our teadeke by tha aport- | the soup woiten like ladies, aud enforced the ment which cotmmunicated by iidatd ul the | sdthe deméatiour on the part of the female do- mirror-contrived doc®, with the Freselman’s | niestits towards thet, they on their own part had house adjoining. a eortala pride in maintaining a suitable desorum In this room we shall ffad four beautiful girls, | of conversation and manvers amonget themselves, as on the first ocoasion when the reader was ini-| We will now go a little more info detail. Linda, tisted in the wysterics of this temple of volup- | the Gerfen girl, was reclining upon an Ottoman, tiicusness : but of these presont four, doo were | negligently toying with her fair tresses,—her naked iow importations to the Brenohwoman’s house of | arms and alniost completely bared bosom exhibiting fechionable infamy. Armantine, the Frenoh girl, | the stainless white of a lovely complexion. There wee atill thére: Liuds, the German gitl, was like- | was an unspeakable langour about hee entire form ; Wiss still an iameate of the sdmo plate :—the other | and her ednsuoue abandonment of attitude was ters have yet te be described. All four were ox- | dieplayed with all ite most ravishingly dangerous dtesed in evéning toilet :their charms | characteristics. Armantine, the Freneh girl—with luged—we cat scarcely aay to the utmost | her dark gloesy hair arranged in bends, and she ze, for this implies a congjstency with | herself perhaps the least moretrigiously attired of nodent mm halfits| the whole fowr—looking, too, more sweetly and pensively lovely, though lovelier as to actual charms she was not, for it were impossible tu award the palm to afty os in particular,—Arman- tins, we say, Wis placed ir a settee ndar the Ger- con veredd: ai qian nega) the s7roWwn fe $6 7 en} and ohh all reshness south ‘plaoming ubon her rich GANG « atady, but which Bat dow Betdme 6, Che wititudles of those fide gitle Were full voluptitius WBandotinent: 60 that iP they had| In iting’ to at Stist whd sought to depidt tour | dined nt peribni of luxurious senqucus- | beau tess they could not possibly have chosen better | the of | sian giel, With whem she pris a COMIC OOO© SS (CO)