The Mysteries of the Court of London, Vol. 5 — page 180: what you’re looking at

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atevtrything shall be dono to render you cheorful er eee, ool mL. Uitgeer eeeDP 1 , , THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. 167 vases, and paintings, aud whence three or four | were turned inward, In concentrated survey of doors opoued iuto the apartments on that storby. | her own sad and well-nigh hopeless position. But there théy lialfSd tiot: another aacdat was | Tho woman, perhaps imagining that the young moutited—-another landing reacted. Here the | captive had fallen lato a At uf sullonness, turned woman paused for & indinent,.aid glanced afbng | slowly away, atid. passed out of tho suite of thé array of fout dodty which dppeared on.that | rooms, Ag the outer door closed Heurictta started storey, as if sho hesitated td wliich apartinent.she | nfand Wetenod..: It was to catch whether that should assign thé you tal prisoter.”. Hex deci- | door was looked or bolted-upon her. Poor thing! sion was howevemproniptly made; end: opening’ | agif those who.bed taken the trouble to put bars one of the doors, she conductéd Henrietta into a | up at the windows would forget to secnro the suite of thige roors, bedutifully furnished. . | door of the cage. to. which the young fluttering These rooms opened oiié tuto another, and bad ¢ bird was consigned !. Yos:. the sounds of the key . no visible issue-except thé duor on the landing by - turning and: the bolts drawing, ‘raached the which thoy hadejust entered. The firét apartment | dansel's eats; and then, with. s sudden outburst was evideutly fitted up as‘ the one where meals | of ‘anguish, she wrung her hands viulently, her might Le taken: the next was to serye the pur- | bosom convulaing with sobs and ber lips pouring. pose of a drawing-room: and the third was a bed- | forth the bitterest lamentations. - chamber. They all three had their windows-atthe {| Ob! how dreary and dismal were the thoughts back of tho house; and thes8 windows were | which now agitated in the brain of poor Henrietta. barred. But the view therefrom was far mpre | Would not. her mother indeed have every appu- eliworful than that which the: frodt of tiie hose | rentreason to suspect the worse,—sbe who was commanded: for those windows ‘doked upon a | already av provego suspicion! Crucifying refleo- benutiff? garden i the rear of the building, | tign!—and heaven only knew how long a period stretching . out to & ognsiderable éxtent, and | was to elapse ere Henrietta. would see her boundell by ashrubbery of evergreetia, beyond | mother again, and. be enabled to tell all that which lay the green flelds of the open.country; | had occurred. And. alag! still more,excruciatiny and as all that neighbourhood is charavterised by | retlection!—was it destined? th he. should picturesque scenery, the view from the windows | ultimately go forth pure and stainfess from this was altogether éxosedingly beautiful. But wha aneaiens Ot infamy? or would not her ruin be view ain possess any cliarma for the captive who |‘ assuredly consummated? ) gazes upon it between iron bara? | | Unable to endure the torturing poignancy of “ Thesé are your apartments,” said the woman. | these thoughts, Henrietta endeavoured to distract “In the cupboards and drawers of the bed-| her attention Ly exansining the apartments to chambor you wifl flod plenty of. changes of | which she had been consigned. She had another raiment, some of which will fit you as exquisitely | reason for entering ‘on. this survey: namely, to an if made by a milliner to your shapo. The | ascertain what chances there might be of @ eur- toilet-table affords al] appropriate requirements. | prise on the part of Lord Everton during tho kn cach rvom there are bell-pulls;,and your | night that was approaching. The reader bas summons will always be promptly .anawered. | doubtless well comprehended that it was a range Your table shall be served: with all, datities: | of three rooms opening one, into anothor, ‘and entirely shut in from the rest of the honse by and contented, unless you resolve to be d gigerlly | the dvor that opoued from ‘the landing. She obstinate and perverse. In the middle rvuni you | lovked to see if there were, any means uf secur- may obsorve a number of books, some of which | ing. this dour inside; and sho found that there nust doubtless suit your taste. When it strikes | were. Yas: there was one of thuse little sliding your fancy to take exerciad, there is the garden } bolts.at the bottum part of the lock; and when at yourservice. All these pteces of faformatiuu I | this was secured, the door could not. be opgned give you by Lord Everton's command. There is from without save by violence, and therefore no attowpt to disguise from you the fact that you | with a noise which could not fail to awaken her. are a prisoner, at least for the present: but how.| But was there no other means of communica- long you may remain so, depends entirely upon | tion with this suite of apartments? Minute and yaurself, You comprehend ‘tae? and therefure | careful waa "Henriclia’s sorutinizing search your destiny is thus far in yourown hands, that | throughout the three rove; but uo other door whereas you are now a captive in thie house, you / save thore between the @partments themaelves, or may becomo the free and hippy mistfeas of it of the cupboards ih the bed-ehambe?, could she find. whenever you think ft I neéd.say. ao more.” | She examined the walls—likewise the wood-work The woman had been permitted to make this long speech without the slightest iuterruption on Honrietta'’s part, becnuse the young damsel was , al was | corner upiivostigaled: 0” undgr 2 influence of too profonad g terror—too | ‘The emault. of this search was ac fer of an ev- paral ylfag a consternation, to. be able to fpterject.| conraging nature that she: felt tolerably sure no asingle word orcomment. She gat.dowg ins dull} attemph ta ayrprise hersin the night would, be dumb stupor,—her eyes fixat _vetantly inthe div. |. meteg nod indeed, when she reviewed all that the rection of the window, beyond, the: rou. hare of | womin bad said to her, she came to the conola- which stretched the. smiling. colintry—the ver. pion:-thet; it was-Lord Everton's hopa either to dure of the fluldd ind trege ait brilliant. gad gléw- | weaty: dr persuade her into @ domplidnce with bis ing in the sunlight of: thd deliclos, nine! of. - ‘delicious ir} wishes. If stich were the case, it at least promised evening. But Henrietta ‘beheld not how. that | her dome days’ leisure to devise means for es- charming panorama of. nataral loveliness: dotted’ | capé; and feeling that this was her only chanoe, here and there with eodatry nansjovis %: pic- | she said to herself, “‘ It is useless for me to give turesque cottages; the whole powers of her vision | way to grief,—indeed worse than useless: for the & 2 e e 3 inside the oupboardsa—looked under the bed and ¢ COMIC OOO© SS (CO)