The Mysteries of the Court of London, Vol. 7 — page 365: what you’re looking at

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854 THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. Te private apartment—a request which the dis-) Farthenless were exceedingly dejected, mise- comfited Gold Stick obeyed with qonsiderable ; rable, and surly—s state of mind which was by alacrity; for he felt by no means comfortable ! no meane mitigated by listening to the com- with ro many eyes fixed wonderingly and | placent terms in which the others eulogized the acrutinizingly upon him. The Grand Duke | succulent repast of which they had so laxuri- of Maxe-Stolburg-Quotha likewise accompanied | ous] partakon. the Prince; an sa a few minutes the three e have said the Nuke of Marchmont was & were alone her in another apartment. | guest at the palace on this oocasion: but he de- Then Count Frumpenhausen made a clean | parted long before the denouement of the adven- breast of , and revealed everything. It{| ture of the hungry Germans. Indeed, it was appeared that a German valet who had attended searcely midnight when the Duke stole away from Prince Albert to this country when be came to the midst of the briilant assembly; and entering espouse the British Queen, was a near relative his carriage, ordered the coachman to drive to the | of the Chevalier Kadger; and when the Grand beginning of the street in which Madame An- Duke's retinue were deliborating at Mivart’s gelique’e establishment was situated. His Grace Hotel how they should indemnify themeelves for was aware that on thie partieular eveniog their exclusion from the Patnoe, the Chovalier had Christina Ashton was to be carried off; and he gesuleed to seek the counsel and succour of his was deaply anxious to kuow the result. It was relative the valet: for be bad an ides floating in however no part of the iafamons Frenehwoman’s his ingenious miod that through such assistance plan to take Christina to her own house: she himself and his fellow-retainers in tue ducal ser- feared that it might be too dangerous—and hence vico might at least obtain a substantial sapper | the concealment of her features with a thick veil, within the palace-walls. Ife acgordingly sped to | to avoid recognition on ) part of the young | his kinsman, who at first expresesd his utter in- | dameci at any future time. She had secordingly ability to do anything for him: bud he ntly ' made an arrangement with the keeper of another recollected that e guest who hed been ecised with | den of infamy, but one which was on a tar lese | a sudden indisposition, had departed privately, | éplendid scale than her own, to receive Ohristins— | leaving his domino behind hint in de ante-room to) to keep her in close custody—and to have her | which he had yetired on firat enperioneing that: ruin effected, eo that under the imperious pressure sickness. The valet procured the douming, aud | of circumstances she might resign herself to « life gave it to the Ohevalier Kadger,—ebtivily exjote: | of pullution, and thereby be prevented from re- ing him to use it for himedif alone, aut by we | turning to those friends to whom she might tell | means to transfer it to any of hie someudot: But the tale of her ebductinn, Such was the abom- the Chevalier was resolved to peeve faithful in | inable conspiracy devised for the sevomplishment every reupeet to his fellow-retainete; art on his | of Christina's ruin: but the reader bas seen how return to Mivart’s, they all aped off an foot togd- | providentially its wan frustrated by the cullision of | ther to Buckingham Palace. Boing known as | the two vehicles. the Grand Duke's retainers, they easily obtained| The Duke of Maretimout, alighting from his adinission to an ante-chamber, while the Ghevalier | carriage, and dismissing it, proceeded to Mudamo Kadger bept the domino compactly folded under | Angehque's house. He found the Prenchwoman hie coat. When the ante-chamber was gained, he|in ber elegantly-furnished apartment, plunged put on the domino, and had no dilfculty ia gliding | into a dejection from which not even frequent | into the saluons where the company were assom-| raughte of wine could serve to arowss her. The ' bled: but he had a koen nose fur the refreshments, | Duke at oncs saw that something was wrong : and and speedily making his way to the aupper-room, | he was speedily made scquainted with all that he banqueted to his heart's content. The second | had cecurred. Hoe gave vent to bitter impreca- weerer of the domino was Count Wronkl, the tions against the mishap; and thea on questioniag | Duke's Lord Steward: the ¢ fird was the Chevalier . Madame Augelique more cioscly as tu the personal | Gumbinnen, the Dake’s Lord Chamberlain: the appearance of the individual who bad rescued 1 fourth ‘was General Hiromelepinoken, the Master * Christina, be recoguised Lord Octasian Meredith. of tho Horse; the @fth wae Herr Humbogh, the “Ab!” he exolauned, “I have known for a long ducsl Privy Sval; end the eiath, as the reader ia time that Meredith was deeply in love with this aware, wae the Cuugt Frumpenhausen, the Guid | giri—and perhaps she will now fall entirely into Buck. But thie respectable individual had fasied | hie hands.” to obtain the supper on acocuat of the most inop-! “And if not,” responded Madame Angelique, portune presence of the Pri-ce at the time in the | “ashe will return to the Lady indora —perhaps refreshment-room; while Baron Farthenies, who | she Ads already returned and perhaps Indura wes to hace been the last wearer of the umvorsal ! conjectures that it is L who had the girl carried domino, was waiting in hungry expectation until | off. 1 feel my lord as if troubles were thickening hie fellow-retainer Frumpenbausen should return. around we——-" , to the ante-room te consign the dieguiswg ger-; “And I aiso!" muttered the Duke with deep | ment to the said Burou's shoubdera concentrated bitterness; then he hastened to add Sweh wae the revelation made to Prince Albert; aloud, “ But we mwust do something, my dear and the Grand Duke of Maxe-Stolbarg-Quotha, | madam—we are not to be beaten and baffled ia Buth were exovedingly irate: but Frumpenhausen | this manner——" promed never to offend again; and it was found; “But what on exrth eae we do?” asked { mmure comvenient to bestow pardon upon him than | Madame Auyelique, with an ae of oompletest be- by expulsion from bis ducal master's service, to | wilderment. send him adgift in the world to tell the tale of! “Yes—what can we do P” said the Duke, the dumino and the suppers. On their way back | almost equally bewildered. “You know that the Mivart’s, Count Frumpenhausen and Baron! Lady Inggre was already your enemy—yoa have a ECOMICOOOKS