The Mysteries of the Court of London, Vol. 7 — page 398: what you’re looking at

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Qn the ather side of the same extremity of the and Laura rushed into the room. The pour gic! ! apartment was Leura in the grasp of Mrs, Oxen» was like one demented: her hair was floating all} den and the negress: the poor girl bad nt abain dishevelled over he# shoulders—her apparel was in '‘Jutely swooned — but half dead with mungied disorder—it was even tern in two or three places: . distress aud terror, she had sunk upen her knees, in @ word, her whole appearance indivated the laud her eyes wero fixed in a sort of deepairing desperate struggle which ehe had wade to esenpe | bewithterment upon ber lover, At the table Sa from her sister aud the negress. And Mrs.‘ John Steward, with a diabolic oxpresiun uf coun. Oxenden herself showed signs of her frongzied « tenance, reaumed the seat fron which he bad eflorts to hol! the persccuted girt back: fur she | sfurted; and the lawyer, bending over towards came rushing in with her own hair oll disar-. hii, whispered, “ For heaven's suke, do not carry ranged, her tuilet in disorder, and with fury flash. ; all Chis tuo far [" ing from Ler lane dark eyes. All was confusion| “ Now,” exolaimed the Baronet, not heeding the ina moment: the borrible negress followed Mrs. | attorney's well-mneqnt romonstrance, bat giving Oxenden junto the room-eome of the sertuuts, | free vent to his vindictive rage and his feelings of likewisn, from the latding—the butler and the | forocivas triumph, “instead of having a couple of other dameatie who had been called as witoenses, | witnesses’ to thia docament which diainhents my sprang up from their seata—tho lawyer seened l nephew, we will havoadoasen, Look, Biygar! the stricken with diemay—and Sir John Steward gave | peu is in my hand—the ink is in the pao—the vent to a terrible imprecation. But Kugar | decd is before mat At this inatant you are my Beverley, bounding forward, received Laura in {j heir—the nest moment, when my name ia sigaed, his arms. {you will have no more claim upon my property at “Save me! save me!’ she wildly shricked | my devease than the voriest stranger {” forth: “for heaven’s sake savo me [and as she} “Deo your worst!" ejaculated Beverley. “T oall clung in frantic terror with her arms thrown | every one fo witness that I care not the value of round ber lover's neek, whe flung frightens! | the very pen which you hold, fur all tho estates glanees over ber sboulder at her sister and the | you possess! Tut it is the safety and happiness DEPross. Of this injured, outraged young lady-~—— “Gice her up, Mer. Beverley!" cried Maw} Ah, but she shall become my bride in apite of Oxenden, seizing upou her aster. you!” yor ferated Sir John, who was perfectly mad “No--never, never to gow, vile profligate | with rage: “and thia hand which im about to wreteh that you are!" thuudered furth the lieu: | write the words that will leave you a beggar, aball tenant, snatching the maiden violently from Mes, | huld her's at the nuptial coromony !" Oxenden’s grasp ;--and holding the former agit | “ Remember, Sir John,” exclanned Kdgar, “ that were on ony aide, with lus upraised right arm he | heaven et any mowent can paralyse anil wither protected ber from another attack. “% Dare not to | the hand which ja atretched forth to do injustice or lay a finger upon herf” he oried: “for 1 will | mischief.” atrike indiscriminately | Yea, by heaven! Ij “Silence, wreteh! J defy you!” vocilerated the will strike vou down, woman though you be !" {furious Baronet: and again dipping the pen deep “See upon her! seize upon that obstinale | dowa int, the inkestang, be was about tu apply it girl!” vociferated Sir Juhn ‘Steward, thug ade! ty tne runt of the disinhoriting de@ument, drosang himself to ins dependants, and stamping) Bat all. a moment, as be half raised himself lis feot with rage. “A hundred guineas to be °up from hia obair to loan the more convonichntly ‘divided atnonget you if you du my bidding!” louver the table, he was sepn to gite a qual “No, ao! wildly shmeked forth Laura, as! spasmodic start —the pen dropped from his hand, there was a geveral rush towards the spot where ; blutting the paper with ink-—but in the twinkling she clung so tenacivudy tu kdgar. fot an eve the sable vtaine were mingled with san- * Beaily my dear Sir John,” interposed Mr, ‘ guine onea: for the blood gushed forth from Sir, Andrews, “ I am afraid 7 ‘John Steward's mouth—his head fell heavily for “Biience, sir!” thundered the Baronet; “ it ia (an instaut upon the table—thon hiv batanny was my will that rules here °” joat ~and he sank backward tuto the arm-chat. And ao it did indeed too fatally seem: for what | Cries of horror burst forth: the attorney and tho waa Beverley's strength, encumbered a he waa too’ butler hastened to his assistance-——but he was pas6 by the very being be sought tu defend, against the | all baman aid~in the madness ef his fury he bad averehelising power of numbera? Besides, he I broken a blood veesel—and it was a corpse that was constrained to limit his resistance within eer. | lay back in that chair t tain bounds for fear of injuring the now almost | Thus ‘ail in an instant the poor and humble fainting girl; so that in less than a ¢ouple of | lieutenant who was about to bo disiaherited ~~ cast minutes after the order had gone forth from the | off perseeuted—and robbed of the maiden of bis infuriate Sir John’s lips, the lovere were sepa- | devoted Jove, became Sir Kigar Boveriey aad the rated—Sevefley was again in the grasp of the | pusteafor of immense wealth. domestics— Laura in the power of her sister and the negruss. | — 8 = wt o ft te aot 6 ee yg Nin - ie mete Gs > el A res RE ot . Pa COMmMICOOO KS, Conn