The Mysteries of the Court of London, Vol. 7 — page 98: what you’re looking at

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td | __ — oe ae ee eee wee ee Cee Oe eee ee ere | Redehffe stepped acruce vbo threshold. He was, | of again appealing to the tenderest feelings of his as usual, envelesac in ine amplo cloak; and fie| oature, ‘1 besought this brief delay iy the con- ET TEE TTS OOO OTT AID LTE EC En A ES eR Eee EP EE Sg | FE, pea Re an een. CE ee ee Oe eee ee — ~_-oe eee rd 6 (ewer om: * when thus storim-tossed, behulds from the summit} “ My promise is kept,” paid Clement Redcliffe, THE WXSTRRIGS OF TILE COURT. QT nating between & paradise of bliss and Satan’s | who was the arbiter of her destiny, wea Row One? kingdom. Na, Sagara not to learn what | moro im her presence. Bho rose to ¢ sistas poe: love is!-—avoid ft if you have the power! “Hap- | sire on the telvei-cuverol sofa: but ehe apie ah pier—far happier are you than your unfortunate | throw @ angie glance towards him. & ok gn mistress ” . | | despair ware sitangely ugicating in her Réatéer “Ig hope, thep, at this inetant dead within | blending too, althouch in confliction,—panedii ae the bosom of your Highnem ?” inquired the | as the expression may seem. It was naturel See - Hindoo dependant. abo should seek to prolong thia hope £8 Mmueg. ~ “Ob, how'can I explain the exact nature of my | possible—ang that, on the other hund, she snot 4b dwn feelings?” cried Indore, almost petulantly. | not rush forward as it were to find herself faoe he “When the ocean is agitated into mighty waves, | face with “epaiz, until imperiously -ompalled wf. the bark which is floating over it, rises at one mo- | envisage it. The colear went ard came in | ment to the summit of a billow, and is the next | transions mpon ior cbaaks,—blushing and dipap- plunged down into the abyss. 88 it is with my | pea “ng through vhe traneparcacy of her dolwate heart—now at one instant elevated by hope, at | dusky skin: while her bosom rose and sank w another plynged into despair. For the vessel, | quick boavings. of the billows the beacun-light shining afar off and | speaking in his wouted ecoents of mournfulness, marking the entrance of the refuge-harbour: but | but in ell tho harmony of his rich manly voice; when borne down into the deep, deep trough of the |“ and your Higkneas will now probably explain sea, the mariner on board his vetgel bebolds naught | wherefore you demanded this interval of eight save the dark gloomy menacing waters around | deys' delay ?” hind. And os, again, is it with my heart. Now,! Indora motioned Redcliffe to take a seat by her ‘Sagoonah, you comprehend all the mingled plea. | side; and now hor cyes wero turned slowly upoa sures and pains—the ecstatic hopes and the inter-| him. Jfope and fear trembled im that glance: vals of blank despair—tho thriling joy and the | love and apprehension vibruted in that look. She deep despondency—the fervid expcetationé and the | dreaded! wigt his decision might be—and yet she wildering apprehensions, which make up the eum | sought tu put away from her own mind the cun- of love. Seck not to know it, wy faithful Sa- | templution of the very worst. The Englishman goonah !—seek not to know it! It is your fond | placed himaelf on the ottomart at a distance which imgstress who counsels you thus.” was properly respectful towards a lady of her Having thus epoken, Indora made * hasty and | princely rank—but which was little caloulated to romewhat impatient ayn; and Sagoonal ghdud | encourage the hope that her loving beart sustained forth from the sum: cucly furnised apavtment. | in conflict with the etrength of deapsir. Searcely hed the Hind,» wen reached the} “Yes, I will explain myself,” said Indora, with foot of the stairvasa, when u “neck and ring called | @ sudden sensation of delight that abo was thus her to the front coor; w3.2 on opening it, Mr. furnished by bisa very words with an opportunity cS ca bat was dro:n «ver bis countenance—no€ as if ; vielign that during the interval, you would not fail while coming hither, he had more than at any to ponder woll and profoundly Upon the decision her time studicd to avoid observation; but such | towards the proclamation of which each pnsaing appeared to be his invariable habit when moving | day brought you nearer and nearer. Then I abuut the streets of the mighty metropolis. As he | thought tu myeelf that every proof of my devoted placed his hat upon the hall-table, and put off hia | yo-—every evidence of my imperishable affection, siuak, be flung a look upon Sagoonab: for the im. | Wauld present itso} to your memory, and that the pression of her haunting eyes was still strong upon | wHolc, -*vumulajing with force and power,swould his mind—and he doubtless now regarded hor to | tule you. mind in my favour. I thought to myvelf sce whether she again looked at him in that same | that you would recollect how the mightiest Princes strange fashion which had sent a vague and un- of my own vative cluse suught my hand jp mar- known trouble into the depths of bis soul. But it} riage, but that 1 rejected every proposal for goyr waffnot so. The Hindoo woman, having closed] sake. I thonght too, that you would bear in mifd the front door, stood in readiness to conduct Mg, p how by these refusale 1 drew dywa upon myoelf Redcliffe into the presence of her mistress: ber | my father’s anger-———” demeanour was that of an oriental slave—her isoks “Your Lighness had httle to fear from the east down, and the brilliant lustre of her eyes | King’s indignation,” interrupted Redcliffe: “ for veiled by the thick jetty fringes which formed such | your influrnce over bim was eonplete.” dark lines, co Wiat the very duskiness of her com-| “‘‘Ihe allusion is ungenerous,” observed Ipdora plexion appeared pale and hght in comparison | coftly, aud half repruuchfully, “I¢ is meant to therewith. remit me that 1 stood as a barsicr in the way of Another minute, and Mr. Redcliffe again stood j your freedor, and that I over-raled my father’s before the Indian Princess. favourable inclinations, when towards the end of yuur caplivity he was about to yield to your often. —— | xepeated prayer to be liberated from it. Yeu: i¢ ® . . was a crune~ a dark branding crime which J | CHAP a RB XVIL aflixed upon myself-——~ But, Oh ! 1 felt‘ that it pan | doath tu par? from you; and 1 hetnvt the eourage THE DUCEBION deeply, devotedly ag 1 loved you--te ley aaah I? would be impossible to describe the feelings| suicidal Lands wpon myself {” ~~ with which Indura became aware that thie man! “Qh! if you bnd given me my Jiherty,” ox, @ a c Sunes | | ECONNIC I OOO© SS