The Mysteries of the Court of London, Vol. 5 — page 323: what you’re looking at

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310 TIE MYSTERIES OF THE COURY. TT ey See course sho must be: it is satural : you should have{ “To possess your sympathy and" your love, is told her.” swect beygnd description—it is paradise ineffable !” “T preserved that secret religiously until it trans- |} —and again did William Deveril press thé young pire as one pt the consequences of the duel. ‘Yeg | maiden to his heart. “Think you, sweet Florina,” Qs Sp = 6 ee eee ~-eebe oa . Ba eeu cesag « «= eal -—I preserved it for your sake. Moringa ; because | he continued after a pguse, “that your absence, — deemed it to be uw seerct of so solemn a character | from the Castle will be notleed? think you that that it ought not to be revealed, even to a sister, | there ia any danger of our being intruded upon 2" until you should vouchsalo the permission. I cong} “No: my aunt will not come out this morning— ' sidered it to be your secret even more than ming | Miss Fareficld has gene to rae with a gentleman of ema = =_ = Se Cee oe Oe . a Ue a ! continue. Another letter was to my aster | col ‘ hidding her the tenderest farewglls;. and.’ i ae wis te Mr. Gunthorpe. In this letter I gate. ha ge be ¢ © But wherefore did he not bring to me the letter as ay ete aby Fat ; hin the secret o my devoted lovo for you—beage becansé I knew how you wore situated in respect to { the neighbourhood—gnd Lady Saxondale intimated Edraund Snxonitale, and I thought it best to retain ‘ after breakfast that she should bo-oceupicd for everythin lovely locked up in my own beart until / soveral hours in writing letters.” ° you, in yuur own good time, should have told me; “If then, we muy safely enjoy another half-hour that there was no lonver snoed for such secrecy.” of each other’s society,” suid Deveril, “I will narrate “You aro all kindness‘and consideration, William, | to you a few incidente connected with myself and a you are all that is generous and noble,” said Angela. This is the time, my beloved Fiuriua, for Florina, with affection beaming in her beauteous the fullest confidende.” blue eyes; and as sho gazed upon her lover ral “ T shall listen,” responded the young lady, “ with countenance reflected the emotions that dwvellod in ‘ a most; heartfelt interest. Everything that regards her soul deeper and happier than she had,ever yet “youl GVilliam, is now of consequence to me. If expericneed in hor whole life—unless an exception you havi sorrows to speak of, I can sympathize w ith must be made for that day on which this love of, them: and if you tell me of joys and reminiscences her’s was first avowod. and the reciprocaf passion | of past happiness, I cun share the delights accum- confessed. | panying your retrospection.” “When forced into that duel,” resumed Deveril, * You will not expect to bear, Florina, that Tam “and seeing myself standing as it were face to face | of ood family or of gentle birth,” resumed Deveril ; with death, I adopted those measures which pru- | ‘and dt was perhaps somo little false pride on my dence and my own honour demandod. I wrote part that prevented me from proffering certain ex- several letters, to bo deliverod in case I fell. Ono ' 3 ' planations on that memorable and happy day whea was to you, Ilorina—assuring you of mins inno- | ! you first suffered me to know that I loved you not coneo as well as of my love, and beseeching that - io vain. I had it on°the tip of my tongue to teil you would sometimes bestow & bheaght on him ' you that Angela was my sister; but I knew you not whose heart had been so devotedly your's.” __ | ‘¢hm as I know you now; and i feared that i mirat “QO William! what must you have sutorea ls esigek those lofty notions in which you have len and the venutiful creature throw her —_ round be Hy) we are —and I at all events thought it better to * she reserve that and other oxplanations until another eitixiruse her countenance again, she: fea of -oxcnaion. Had & been more candid,—or rather had cheeks the tears that had started ber blue, Br then Appr eviated as “ought to have done tlic cyes. psag es OP ade ge. paity of your nati ts Nich enables you to “Am I not now fully recomponsoa ‘ aie /xise-daperfor to tho artificial, conventionulisms’ of iveveril, with enthusiastic fondness. enor a Sec raranl circles, — how "much unhappiness golk, egy [eve been spared ug both! However, the ee pot “be redalled, much as it may bo re- Ave 4 I will now tell yoa my story.” tue fullest explanation how I bad been provag id: $0: Sar : ¢leorest William.” said Florina: “I a duel by Lord Harold Staunton; and I revehied.t ah ¥ sis sition.” ae eat: reminisconces,” commenced Deveril, ing that in case I fell, be would personally. begog : he oe ected. with a troop of strolling players, to tho, bearer of the letter which J had written to yout, | which . . a an pany my fathor and mother belonged. my sweet Florina,—so that he might tell. you. all he Thbis ‘nage. was Devoril, I am about a year older know of my charactor and help to corrdborate the “tha way. ‘sister Angela; and fT rocollect that in her assurarwes I had penned of my innocence towards. infamy ‘elie: Wes: ong of the most beautiful little Lady Saxondale, For two days after the duel ay Ghetate the Wh yer Sdastituted a parent's joy. Al- remained insonsible of what was passing around... thddoh tno eee Neiepag civournstances—cxpow to Mr. Gunthorpe, visiting my lodgings in Pall Mall, . at ad Goleslens in pursuance of an intimation which. he ‘received yelier wera Ceebouis from my eccond, Mr. Fosyster, found the letters and uw with: the tendetel aoa Thoy were suporior perused tho ene “addressed to himself. ‘Thus was it, ‘people in ‘theig® ky: ..My mother had belonged to Florina, that he discovered the secret of ‘our love.” - @ paspeotabla: Tie As Dat, by marrying « poor clerk, at Was, she was altogether dis- hy her rel; sie: aud friends, My father was Mrigly kind to us, and treated which you had written, andgwhich was intended for var me?” asked- Florina. ‘one Of thse gry 5: ove hetuas apgn why cannot ap- “ Bocause the oxpress injunction was penned by , Dreclate | yo valida ‘of: ‘Sponey : ard with but a very my hand upon tho envelope to the effoct that it was ° amall salary arid a ‘v4: to. keep’ he fell into diffi- unly to be delivored 3 in case I should fall in the culties. Viable to” pay his dvtta, and threatened duel.” with. pris:n, tie abs orded froin his nativetown, “Ob! if that horror had taken placo:"—and the his loving’ wife bein;: vbo partne of his flight. Saie young creature shuddered with a cvld ‘tromor From wha: I buve oftqa hear? hin say, L am but from head to foot at the bare idea. , | too well wi re Mau \e pnd my. mother must have | , , og | COMICISOOKS. COM