The Mysteries of the Court of London, Vol. 5 — page 351: what you’re looking at

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@ ei ee 2 ee $38 THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. = = nD ee oe Liady Saxondalo appeared to reflect for .some | kept ins your own bosom whatsoever you know minutes: and then she said, “It must be at a| concerning my affuirs—you may present yourself somewhat late hour to-morrow evening when our" again & uf, and I will give you fivu thuusand interview takes plaee; aud it cannot be within the | pounds more ns a final and closing roward.” * eastle-walls, I should be cxposed to a thousand} “ Your ladyship may depend upon mo,” exclaimed disayreeuble suspicions if you were to visit me here | Emily, scarcely able to €onceal her joy at these ' again. Aw it is, I shall have to invent somo oxcuse | golden roaults of her negotiation. -_ au: = eee © ©" eee See. 9 ee | unt from the oastle; and there ig @ pleasgnt walk * will nat mention ny name to your servants; ewan ie ‘a accofnt for your present appearance here. Do| She then rose to take her loave—first howevor you think, however, that your inaid—whom you say | advancing up to one of the splendid mirrors in the you have with youin your chaise—is likely to gossip | apartmont, and tyixg the strfigs of her coquettish . with my domestics 7” French bonnet: then with a theatrical curtsey, Lf am convinced she will not, my lady. I gave | which mado the ample folds of her rith satin dress no? name on my arrival; and therefore you may | swell put like a balloon all around der, Madenoiselle recusnige every inclination on my part to com>] @Ajombert quitted the apartment. She descended duct this negotiation with as much delicacy as] to the post-chniso which waa waiting; and taking possible, In tho first place, my sorvant dova not her goat inside the vehicl@, from which hor attondant huow the object of my coming, nor what tho | sombrette had not alighted, was speedily on her inasquerade-dress we have brought with us has tu | way baek again to Lincoln. do with my visit; and in the second plact, she eg ee they speak tu her while sho waits in. thé chaise.” * I thank you, Miss Archer, for these assurances,” resumed Lady Saxondalo, whose tone and look bad rradiuillybeen displaying more, affability‘and con- ‘desveusion since that print in the discourse at which | Ow the following day Mr. Hawkshaw arrived to she went off on her new tack. “Iam now better | lunch gf @axondale Castle, shortly utter one o'clock, alnu to suggest the requisite arrangements for our | according to invitation given him by the lady of the interview of to-morrow,evening. In the-firet plage, | mansian herself eto he tovuk his departure on tho yeu must remove to-morrow from Ligouln to Gains- previous evening. Ho camo on # most splendid borongh. This latter town is but a few miles dis- | thorough-brod horse, of which he had spoken the y before, and eoncerninz which Lord IMarold , CHAPTER LEX. THR THOROUGH-BRED. tlong the bank cf the river, so, that without even | had expressed some degree of curiosity. During ' Inquiring your way, you cannot pogsibly mistake it. | luncheon, Staunton renewed the couvergation relative _ Wall you to-morrow evoning—say at about half-pagt | to the horse; ‘and Mr. Hawkshaw launchad forth nine o'clock--mect mf on the bank of the river | into enthusiastic eulogics of its brilliant qualities, midway between Gainsborough and tht castloP—- ! —a¢ the same time describing it as one which only } nu the matter eap be settled atonce. I vhall come | @ fearless Hider would venture to mount. | provided with the anoney: you on your part will] « Perhaps,” ssid Lord Harold, with a smile, | have the masquerade-dress,” “you arf nob aware, Mr. Hawkshaw, that I am “ But your ladyship has no objection that [ should | considemd by my friends to be a most excellent be accompanied by my maid ?” equesteian; end if you willepermit me the oppor- “ Not the slightest—on condition that you do not | tunity, after lunehepn, I will convince you whether ' tel her whom it is that you are to meet; for how- {1 am afraid to take your horse at the highest ever trustworthy you may consider her, I by no: cate we ean nd in fio fields round about.” ' meus wish to place myself in her power.” “I sequest, Harold, thateyou will nut ho Ao Alay she nut tecornize your ladyship ?” foolish’? said Florina, who, notwithstanding ter “Not through the dark veil that I shali wear— | diminished opinigg pf ber brother's rectitude of : nor in the disguise that I shall adopt in my apparel | principle aad worth ef character, nevertheless still altuzether.” entorteined for him too great 9 sisterly regard not dale? juquired Emily Archer, not altogether relishes | part. @ {dul are thera no other means, Lady Saxon- | to bo frightened at This proposed venture on his ing Lye extreme mystery of the arrangement, “by, “And 7 also must jaterpose my aulhyrity,” said which Lhe neyutiation can be completed? Jf, for | Lady: Macdumald: “that is to say, if 1 possess any iustanea, I were to weet you at Gainsbprough tue | _—w sich indead I hepe I do. Jur people in our 1sarrow when you visit your banker —~" | sphere of Jifo-—” “No, Mias Archer—I am ov well known at/ “My dear aunt,” interrupted Stegnton,—" and Gainsborough that I cannot risk being talked | you also, ina, £ egunot possibly listen to your about: Unless indeed the whole affair be managed fears: or ratuer you must permit me to tal you swith the utagest secrecy, it will nut be worth my ‘both thet they ano quite unfounded. Have I not ‘while to give one single shilling fo seal your lips.” | been owt hunting often ? did I nut ridy at the cele “Then be it as your ladyekip hes dagided,” re- | brated Duschurah steeple-chase ?” | joingl Kmily. “ for my part [ da not object = “But, my lord,” said Lady Saxondale, with an whatsoever precautions your ledgghip chooses te take.” end dear Flo have given you most excellent advice; “You aust understand that they are indisg | and if you will allow me to add the weight of mine, pensxbly necessary,” guid Lady Saxondale “But i I must, beg that you think. no more of riding Mr. une word inore. If you maintain the strictest; Hawkshaw’s horse—at least rot for the purpose socrecy in respect to all these proceedings—and if i of taking any desperate leaps.” | ut the end of a year from the present time you have | “What docs Mr. Hawkshaw himself say 7’’ air of grave remonstranco, “1 think that your aunt | e fs hee eee Bw ewe epee - 5 henenstatinntnens ‘ a . y ior COMIC OOO) SS (CO)