The Mysteries of the Court of London Vol. 4 — page 398: what you’re looking at

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_ m = eer ee ee gS Be ee ee ee cee a THE MYSTERIES*OF THE COURT. themselves) his interest in the lady and her daughter was still more excited fhan at first. He now however Jearnt from the captain's lips that the two girls Agatha and Julia, whose names had been so unfortunately blended with the horriblé occurrences at Geneva, had recently dicd; and therefore the reason of the mother's: and ‘sur- viving sister’s mourning weeds was now no longer an enigma. The passage from Geneva to Lausanne is not a long one, the distance by water being scarcely \ AN » ey 4 : a * Ny - an AS 1h ‘ 7 oN \ me } _ o_O! ASOT 8 wm, \' 4 ‘ i ‘ ‘ . ri ‘ > . 4 a s : at C a) ps [a 4 . ~ - por ad Sa peer el a ee A = eh Te enn she ee ee ee _—— haem w o> eee a — 2? Ree Te a mh A, a ~ = f= BAOOPER. t ceive the young Englishman on boart ; and Mury little suspected she was the object of so much sympathy and interest. Nor had they even ob- erved that the aspect of the heavens had been gradually getting more dark and menacing, and the waters of the lake more troubled. Suddenly the clumsily-built vessel began to toss and heave in a manner that all in a moment produced a per- fect consternation on board. Several of the pas- sengrers were thrown off their feet; and two or three narrowly escaped being pitched over the thirty miles: and at the expiration of three hours | bulwarks. The women screamed,—the men gavo the port of destination was nearly reached. During | vent to ejaculations of alarm—and the captain this interval Mrs. Owen and Mary had remained seated on the spot where they had placed them- selves when first embarking ; and being the whole time engaged either with their mournful revlections | imminent. issued his orders to the sailors with a rapidity ot atterance and a vehemence of gesticulation which fully proved his conviction that some danyer was Mrs. Owen and Marv were startled or else in the melancholy discourse to which those ‘from their mournful reveriés,e and they flung thoughts led, they took no notice of any of theit® fellow passengers. They therefore had, not per- et ae eee anxious looks around to ascertain the cause of the sudden alarm and the peril which occasioned it. AOC) COUN (C cS) CO