The Mysteries of the Court of London, Vol. 5 — page 80: what you’re looking at

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a ed tiful youth of eighteen wliom wo have already de- 6 SHE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. 67 eres - oP ee splendid band, being in attendance, the alternate nant! g countenance of tho patrician young lady, quadrille and waltz soon sounded most insptritingly | and tien casting down his looks again in greater throughout the mansion. confust\n than before. Ladg Saxondale parformed the part of a hostess; “ But\what sort of a woman was sho?” asked with that dignified but quiet air which belongs to! Juliana, in a soft tremulous voice that quivered high brveding; end truly nfignificent did sh@appear | with the same owotions which mado her heart throb ; with her grand beauty set off by all the advantages | | for she felt consumed with a dqvouriug passion as of a superb toilet. Tho white ostrich plumes waved | she fixed her regards upon the Beautiful youth gracefully abovo the head which She carried with a | before her. statucsyuc elegange slightly commimgled with} “She was a very common woman, Miss, —~ hauteur; and no one who now gazed upon that | wrotchedly dressed—with a cloak and cap. She proudly handsome countenanes would have for a | had no bonnet on——Altogether, I did not like her moment fancied that its screne dignity was but a | looks. But I suppose sho was some poor woman mask veiling*the inward troubles of the soul. Ina, asking charity or a favour, and nat knowing very suite of apartments thronged with splondid speci- | woll how to behave perselfy mens of the female sex, Lady Saxondale was as-| At this moment tho sounds of footsteps ascending eiredly the most superb. Thére were others more | the stairs were heard; and Juliana, flinging upon sweotly and int&restingly beautiful—such, for ox- | the page a look as expressive of a fervid passivn us ample, as the. captivating ‘Lady Florina Staunton, | looks could possibly be, turned hurriodly away and or oven Lady Saxondale’s younger eda fer Con- | passed into an ante-chagnber, where sho paused for stance: but there was not ono who in Juno-like | a few minutes to compose herself—for she felt tho majesty, of form and splendid pride of glorious | blush of her fevered sensations still upon her checks. womanhood, could be pointed out as a rival tu Lady,| Then, withe the imago of the beautiful pnge still Saxondale. Behold hér as she nw stands, for a few moments a little way apart from theprilliant throng, with one fair hand lightly resting upon the marblo-. slab of a side-table, surveying the crowds of ele- gantly dressed men, atatély dames, and lovely girls whom, she has assembled there; and ely ie veriest anchorite would be compolled to confess tha | it were a pily to retire from a world ombellished by s0 superb and magnificent a beauty. It was during an interval betweon the dances. that Juliana, Lady Saxondale’s elder daughter, slipped unperceived from the ball-room; and going forth upen tho ranaing, as cast a rapid pnd scrutiniz- ing glance around Oo pagos were standing a little way down tho staircase, conversing with each othcg. One of them was Francis Paton, that beau- wonder what the meaning of that mysterious v visit to Lady Saxondale could pussigly be—she returned into the state-apartments, where her hand was irn- mediately soljcited for tho ensuing dance. We have already said that Mr. Marlow, ono of Lord Saxondale’s guardians, was a guest at the banquet, His partner Mr. Malton had also been invited; butthrouga pressing business, this gentlo- man had boen unable to reach Saxondale Houso until the saloons were thrown opon for the bull. Though somowhat resembling his partner in pcr- eonal exterior, ho was not of the same bustling and volatile character, but far moro precise, cul, and sedately business-like. Shortly after he had made his appearance, Mr. Marlow drew bitn aside ; and they convorsed together for a few mirates upon some private matterss of their own. scribed. Juliana called the other page to her, and sent him away on somo trifling errand which! , “I shall bo umable to come to tho oflice to- suggested itself a¢ the moment, ayd which indoed ! morrow,” said Mr. Marlow, “as I have got sonic. was a mere pretext to enable her to snatch an op- | thing particular to do at homo. And yet youand I, portunity of saying a word to his good-looking com- Malton, must manage to have an hour's conversa- panion. The moment he had disappeared down the | tion in the morning rolative to that law-suit :"— atairs, Juliana beckoned Frank fo approach ; and alluding to the business of which they had been the colour mantled in vivid scarlot upon tha youth’s | conv » and which was of great importance to countenance as he hastened to obey that summons. | thoir ent, though of none to the reader. “Frank,” said Juliana, her own countenance “ Shall I run down to you very carly P” asked likewise blushing as she bent upon him the flashing | Mr. Malton. ._ light of hor superb dark eyes, “tell me, what was, “ Why can’t you come hamo with mo to-night?” that mossage you delivered to her ladyship before suggented the bustling Marlow, taking of his kid dinner? I noticed that she seemed annoyed and | glove axid displaying a splendid diamond ring us he uneasy; and it has troubled mo much” ran his fingers through his hair. “Sléep at my Juliana@might have said, if she had told the | house, and then ye can talk ovor the whole thing truth, that the only trouble she had experienced in | at breakfast-time to-morrow. You are 4 bachelor,” the matter was that of the most lively curiosity,—a | he added, laughing, “and have no account to givo curiosity, indeed, so intense that ake had not been | of yo F conduct to anybody.” able to restrain herself until thé morrow ere she ell, be it so,” responded tho junior partner sought to gratify it. alee a few moments’ consideration. “When my “It was a woman Wiss, who called,” carriage comes, I will order it to be dismissed.” Frank, almost overowue with bashfulness ; vad | And you will take a seat with mo in mine,” was she would insist upon seeing her ladyship.” Mr. Marlow’s prompt rejoinder. “We oball leave “A woman to be thus jmpertinentd” exclaimed ; at midnight: for I can’t stand late hours :”—and Juliana, her curiosity still more piqued. “ “What he be pare! somewhat conccitedly with his superb did ahe want ?” guird-chain. : “T do not know, Miss,” returned tho page, raising e af or I either,” responded M). 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