The Mysteries of the Court of London Vol. 7 — page 390: what you’re looking at

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THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT ; pared to accompany him. They journeyed on im silence; and the Knglishman had thus ample lei- ire to give free scope to his reflections. Compa- ratively a few hours had sufficed tqbring him from the cave to the extremity of the jungle: but on the former occasion of his endeavour to find an issue from the wilderness, he had taken another direction and had thus only floundered fartber and farther into its depths. Whether he was still in the kingdom of Inderabad, he knew not: but he was very certain that when firet entering the jungle after his flight from imprisonment in the capital city of that kingdom, he had not passed through the region where he now found himeelf. When in the jungle, and exposed to all its horrors, he would cheerfully have falleh in with any of Queen Indora’s emissaries who might have been sent in pursuit of him: but now that he was clear beyond the limite of, that awful wilderness, he entertained = ba . rr ” 9 gh! Pro s a, we — am oe XAT ~te, thought of being recaptured and conducted back to Inderabad. Thus it was of some conseque to him to learn whether he was still within the range of Queen Indora’s jurisdiction: but how could “he possibly ascertain P—for no intelligible word could he exchange with the Gossoon. Trust- ing therefore to some fortuitous circumstance to impart the intelligence which he required, he walked on with his companion. In about an hour and a half—as the sun was sinking into its western bed—they reached the outekirts of the town, which was one of moderate sise. As they entered the streets, the Burker looked about to see if there were any English sol diers or Sepoys, such ac he had seen in Calcutta and other places in Anglo-India through which he had passed when jgurneying as a prisoner in the suite of Queen Inadora and her royal husband: bat he beheld none of those indications of a British tly’ precisely opposite feeling, and trembled at the j‘possession. The Goseoon led him on through , : ° ® COMIC OOOKS. COR