The Mysteries of the Court of London Vol. 7 — page 48: what you’re looking at

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Marton. It woald ee eee lovely creature: she is indeed exquisitely beanti- ful—and hee beauty bes proved ber ruin. Two | a.shost time. years ago the awat who had adopéed hes, died sud- | mond; afi ha. Uttle. douly; and the property: whieh she inteuded./cister, made overtures, Marion to ibberkt, was swept awey into the pate session of strangers, ‘throogh some informality in the will of the be seconsed, I recommended Marion to obtain @ situation as & governess--for which her accomplishments fisted: ber. She'went:iale a. family in that capacity; but ia a short fime she became the vyintim of @ sedosey. Thia was. the- Bari of Beltinge; and with him slie lived until receatly, I thought all: the while-tor ab very least until mal wenks bask--¢hat she wae still in: her position as a governess: for hee letters gave mean assurance to that effect. Om leaving the service of the Duchess of Marchmmont, I weat to see my sister: but instoad of finding her living as Gear to: meas that efectionate and ‘ @ preceptress in a respectable family, I found her the agony of my mind, I revealed cverything which related to myselfi-toid her how I had like- wise fallen, though heaven knows through'no fault of mine!—and told, her hhewise who wae the author of my-ruim, Then I came hither.” Amy coased suddenty; acd Obristion, mush pained by the narrative whish he had just heard, azid in a gentle voice, “1 fear fom the manner iu which you broke off; that: you have nothing te add im respect to penitence ead: reformation on the pert of your erring sister PY" .. “ Alas, nothing !’* responded Amy Sutton, “So fer from seoking euntee a better path, Marion has taken a downward step in the career which she is pursuing. The Karl of Beltinge dissovered that she was fhithless to him: and in a moment he disearded her. ‘Yos—mereilossly, though. perhaps his severity was justifiable enough, he turned her adrifs into the streets,—stripping her of every valuable and costly gem with which he had:pre- sented her during the time she was under his pro- tection. What resource had she? The unfortu- nate girl found her way to a house of fashionable infamy, whieh is not altogether—at least in one gense—unknown to you.” “To me?” ejesulated Christian, in the most un- feigned astonishment: and then with a look of indignation, he anid, “TI can assure you, Miss Sutton-——” “I did nob mean to offend nor to imsult you,” ed the young woman. “The fashionable house of infamy to which I allude, is that same Madame Angelique’s——” “Ab, I comprehend!” cried Ohristian,—“ the place where those dresses were made, the diabolical use of which so nearly proved fatal to the oharac- ter of the Duchess of Marohmont |” “The same,” Amy replied: “ for the svooation of a dresamaker has beon for yeare carried on by | part. Madame Angelique, asa blind for the loathsome traffic which she pursuce beliind the scenes.” oma ra pen Duchess hervelf patronised her a¢: * observed our hero. : re Yon bat in: tdétal* of the real ohm raster of thatdouse,” rejoined Amy; “end in the tame manner Madamo Angelique has dad many TWD MEEENENA CD TaD CORD, mont offered as & yeromponse fer his. foul treachery, | lady cushamays: wha hear nok the aid I avcopt! But I was about ta epeck of |the worfan whom they thus patronized, _{ laxuriating in the gilded infemy whieh a6. once; WRbroclaimed itself to my comprehension. *Then, in you. purpesed.to retire into vile But was. telling you: Mariow Betook hezself tein Sul ahs eo Therese mat Mawobe that she was my ° riebly: zejected. ech oe F yeetarday. I have recsived.a letter from her this morning-: she tells wathak ehe. ic now under the protesiion of a maa whose name was at.once fami. Uae € mote anit will bo. Gumilieg eocuge to yom 'y meet. * The villain peut ociangna “TI have. Mare rangans: -Qne fap loathing.and abhorring thet.unprindipled. maci. ‘e-grossly insulted my sisten—he. eck himalf, as you ave. aware, to, the. iniquitens designs of the Duke of Marghmontwo and he insulted one likewise,” added our hema, thinking of: his well-beloved Isabella, “ who is as siatar to, whom I heve:just alluded.” “Yeas Marien,” continued Amy, “is now under. tha protection of that mem; and singular enough, is it. that through the Duke of Mazchmont’s agency this-change'in her cixcumstanaes has been brought about, J am £3 yot unsoqueinted with gino nga et me mand to-morrow I skal) kanw all.” “ Bub is id peasible.” exclaimed. Christian, "oe stator shooked at the impression whieh Amy monk had:just’ loft. upon: his. mind, “that your Amy Sutton did set. immediniely. angwer oar herais question: but. she looked at him herd in: the face with a peculiar expression-end then gaid, “ The bepngh ver a Merion: is not eo: deeply dontaved, Dee: 80 te evens gacd feeling, that she is indifferent exqugh tc hear sister's wrongs as. ta aseept ferouss from the author of them, No, Mr Ashton! Sho will suecour me in tha pursy ance of my: revenge, if. opportunity: may Sarva: and from something. whieh she hints in hes letéer, thera 1 a chance thas ber services prare thus available. Buf, Oh! if Marion but be recisimed-r--~-it, is this that dwellsin my mind! And new, after all I have tald you af the doaree dation of my gister, and with your knowledge of my own share and dishonows, I ask what haye [ worth li for—unlesa it be for rev wherefore ehauld T eqntinue te cling to. life when once that revenge is accomplished ?”’ Cheistian endeavoured to reason with the young woman in a proper manper: but sha was deal to. all | ie pewoaptrances her nib evidently se wpom the wreaking & of same sort against the Duke of of Marchmont; and our here saw with pain aad. sorrow that no friewlly argument could divert. her from heer course. Ha therelore oi Magia ‘som to ee “T have not of. yet: explainpa,”. he said, “the preeise wotive of mp visit; and from somothingt which you page’ lot drop, it may bo uoneces« sary to make the offer which I had eriginally i tended. Judging from all you told me in railway/oerriage some weeks back, I fancied. some ¥ fr : sodlusion LOAO© SS (CO)