The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 44: what you’re looking at

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THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. : Ti if ; =o Th ' “—— | _— = — me " = i — = kg = = = a nL ] | u i ie | | Hi ps | | | Mi ih mi | Till | I! ee i il it i a Tin Ty rage 1 ; Ped oie * presumed conquest. Madame Augelique took pos- , Amy Sutton, formerly lady’s-maid to the Duchess session 0. the cheque uoperceived by Armantine,— | of Marchmont, was now lodging. who that same ovening left the establishment, to Some weeks had elapsed since her meeting with take up her new abode in the splendidly furnished | Christian Ashton in the’ train on ber journey to lodgings which her lover had lost no time in en- | Headcorn; and the reason which had induced the gaging for her reception. unfortunate young woman to seek this retirement, could no longer be concealed from the eyes of the — world. She was in a way to become a mother. | It wasin the afternoon; and Amy was seated CHAPTER LXXXIX. alone in the little parlour which she occupied at AMY. table—bat she did not work: there were books on a shelf—but she had recourse to none of them to beguile the time. She was plunged in deep thought; and the expression of her countenance Tam village of Headcorn is at no great distance from the town o: Ashford in the county of Kent. About a quarter of a mile from Headcorn stood a neat little cottage in the midst of a garden; and the place was the property of an elderly woman— the widow of a small farmer who had held land in would have shown to an observer, if ang at the time were near, that the tenour of her reflections was of a dark ominously brooding character. She had informed Christian of the exact truth in re- the cottage. There was a work-basket on the ( i that neighbourhood. It was in this cottage that | spect to the bleck treachery which Marchmont No. 57.—FOURTH SERIBS. z : ; co AMUCLOOO) (CO) Ln