The Mysteries of the Court of London, Vol. 7 — page 297: what you’re looking at

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Sa OTE Pa cee ee wise eh ate edn Oe SPE thy a Ge ee Ore cee ~ 286 TNR MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. were only just audible. A sickening sensation seized upon Christina, What if Tue had been CHALTOR LIV. pstemugFk Rapid as the lightning casts its blaze| - upon the entire canopy of heaven, did the damec review her own conduct caring the wildly agitating weene with Octavian Nleredith; and she saw that; I¢ was evening; and Madame Angelique was she had not piven utterance to a singla word that | seated in her elegantly farn.shed room,--the table she could now wish unspuken. On the contrary, | well spread with dessert and wine. It was evident every ayllable that had issued from her own lips | she expected sumebody: for she frequently con- was precivly such as she would havo uttered if | sulted ivr watch,—taurmuring to herself, “"Phis able at the time deliberately to ponder what | note specified nine punctually, and rt 1a consider- she was about to gay. With this cunscivusness | ably past.” of perfect rectitude of behaviour, her presence of | At length the door opened, and a domestic an- mind was cotnpletely revamed —her strength of | nounced the Duke of Marchmont. purpuse was recovored ; und sho ascended to Zoe's! “1 know it is shameful to keep a lady waiting,” chamber. said his Grace, with a eort of fureed good-huinvured Ske found Lady Octavian Meredith seated in an | jooularity ; “ but I was detained at the Club where cxey chair, with a Jancuid and enfecbled appear- | 1 dined.” ance -—-but otherwise with an alr of serone corn- “Better late than nover, my lord,” responded pusure, Madume Angelique; “and now if your Graro “ft must have been a servant whose footsteps | would honour me by taking a glass of wine, I wil IT heard,” was tho thought which rapidly traversed | explain how IE have progressed in a certain matter Yhrvatina’s brain: “for if Zoe had been listoning, | in which your Grace is interested. rhe could not possibly thus dissemble !” “Is it that of the Indian lady?” inquired the “Pardon me, my dearest friond,” said Lady | Duke, as he helped himself to some wine. “i: Octuvian, in that sweetly soft plaintive voice which | heaven! I hype yuur answer will be in the affiruia- for some time past had been habitual to her: | tive —though I care not even if it should be to tel “pardon mo for having thus long left yuu to your-| me that the hope points towards taat ayah of self -but I was seized with such a senee of ex- | her's: for the magmificunt beauty of tho ono 1s haustion that Eo owas compelled to sit down and | equalled by the darker giory of tre other's.” yest, Here, Christina! aceept this trifle from one “Ah? then you have seen them, my ford P” who loves you: —and she presented uur heroine { ejaculuted Madame Angelique, with a sintio of with wu locket of choeost workinauship, and cone | satis(uction. taining sume of lier own hair. “You had so piqued ray curiosity a fow weeks Christina pressed if to her hips; and then obey. | ayo, when you renewed the subtect one urelit that jug some strong impulse, she sank upon ber kneca | L was here -——” —took Aov’s hand- and covered it witle ber kisses “Thue your Graco went and Jail wait at Days- and her tears. Sbe sebbed audibly ---buat spoke not | water to catch a ginupse of them in thei carr. ice ? ——anid yet there was a world of elogucnee im the }—~—eh, my Jord?” said the millincr with an arch Whole procem fing on hes part. tor et wore plainty | simile. eould (he mneaning OF jer almost involudacy cone * Procisely go,” responded Marchmont: “and [ dact have been expresed af sue hwl excoumed, | was so inferested that £ went a seeund time. On ©“ Purdon ine, dearest Zoe! f know that foam the? ibe firat oecasion JP bebeld the Jady ands cnivihs cause though heaven can attest how ivneocenthy--) aud, good heavens! what woodrous beaut. on tag of all you suffer 2° part ofeach! The sevoud tume TP savy the dads wits Yet those words wera nod spoken; and whether [a young Kovlish girl, whom to my astardsameat L Soe comprehended the silent erogaeuee of the tat onee recugmaed. She is Adi 4 Asutun- ihe weeping and kneeling maiden’s provesans, must | sister of that very tdenticil soung dog who sp alt be feft tor tha reader { uy Womgecture. Cert if is Inv sratue in respect to Stan: Lepe and iy wile that Lady Qctavian wound hor aris around She was at first with the Sercdiths—anJ to tell (“imafinn’s neck---atramed her to her busom—!you the truth, I had marked her oot as my dwobed and wept tikewisa: and thus were their ue | { | | | mG? ene —_ eee s eee ser he eng! ee wee — ew —— 1» _ are nee SP TEE CXPLANATION OF A PUT. y? yo eee ee a Ey Se ET ne aE das SE eT a a a es larvwells expressed ! “And why, my lord, should you not honvur her When Chriatina again found herself in the car- | with your favour in her turn?” inquired Madame riage, asit boro her homeward, she could searcely {| Angehqgue. “IT have never scen hor—at least recollect how she had reached it after that parting | not to my knowledge: but if she be worth any acene with the amiable lady whom she feared that ” slice should never behold again. Profound was the affliction which Curistina experienced; and on!‘ sho is worth as much trouble as eiches tho regaining the villi, she hastened up to her own: castern lady or the asah! Siois of a raviwuay chamber, where she once more gave way to the ' beauty: and those three together must forin a wild cutpouring of her aaruish, group such as you, Madame Angeliqas, never had fin the saloon adjoining —baautiful as I adunt your houris are, But come—tell mo what is this: trouble --— “ Worth any trouble P”? exclaimed Maret mont ! ‘ satistactory intelligence which you have to ime part P” <a “'Phe castern lady, my lord, will be in your . power,” rephed the infamous woman, “ whenever you think fit to say the word. I took the busiiess su hand myeelf—and fortune favoured me. f AS OR) LEL: RITT <I ECONNIC I OOO© SS CO