The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 46: what you’re looking at

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THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. =—-$3 ES a " he ‘ _— eS a, Ihe Duke of Marchmont never for a moment | ’ changed, he rejoiced to think that they had gut suspected that it was ‘possible for his wife and | upon a more friendly footing; and he said to bim- Bertram to form an attachment for each ther— | self, “Elisa is making atonement for her chilling much less that they already loved from an old- inhospitality of the first ten days; and Bertram, acquaintance. He believed in the high | with a chivalrous magnanimity, is doing his best honour of his nephew and in the purity of his wife. | to convince her that her former conduct is forgot And he was right in so believing. He never even | ten and forgiven. Hugh certainly gave me the asked himself whether it were dangerous that they , best possible advice ; and I wronged poor Bertram should thus be thrown together: the thought never | when I attributed the frigid reserve of his de- for an instant entered his head. He was by no | meanour to an dingenerous aversion to the alliance means a jealous man: that is to say, his jealousy | which I have formed.” was difficult to excite save and except by palpable} Thus, we say, did a week pass from the date of evidence and on unquestionable grounds. He had | that interview in which Bertram and Elisa gave flattered himself that Eliza loved him; and in the | mutual explanations, and passed through such an giasial coldness which she and Bertram had | ordeal of rending, agonizing emotions. This week mutually shown during the first few days of the| flew rapidly away in the estimation of the two young man’s presence at Oaklands, he had scen | lovers: for such indeed they were. They both what he thought to be the demonstrations | felt that it was wrong to be so much together,— of positive aversion towards each other. Now, | dangerous to what little remained of their wrecked therefore, that he saw their manner mutually happiness, if not dangerous to their virtue. Yot No. h.—FOURTH SERIES. (CO an (G DOO (CO