The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 144: what you’re looking at

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TITS MYSTRAIBNS OF THE OOURT. 187 almost overpowering influence. But it was not so: the excitement of thrilling bliss following upon acute suspense, appeared to revive her lost strength and resuscitate the energies which indisposition had paralyzed. Oh! to faint away from the sense of renewed happiness which she now enjoyed, would be as it were to die out of paradise ;—and Lady Castlemaine expericnoed too vivid a delight—too thrilling an ecstacy—not to feel her entire form glowing as it were with the vital warmth of a new existence. It was fresh life that was infused into her: it was a new state of being into which she found herself transported. We shall not make the slightest attempt to reproduce here the precise terms in which full explanations presently took place between the husband and wife; but we shall in a narrative form furnish the reader with the sense and tenour thereof. Enough has been gleaned from the history which Lady Castlemaine breathed in the ears of Mrs, No. 70.—TNIRD SERIES. Broughton, to skaw that the Earl waa a man peculiar disposition. There were certain defects im his temper, and a morbidness of the mind, which were purely constitutional,—not to be attributed to any eiher cause, nor emanating from any untoward circumstances of his earlier life. For indeed, his existence had been marked by no misfortunes, save those which may be termed of his own ereating, or which arose from the infirmities of his character. Whenever enjoying happiness, he was always sus- picious of it; and thus the drop of gall had been in- variably mingled in the cup of sweets. When he first learnt to love Priscilla, he tortured himself with the idea that as he was twelve years older than she, it was scarcely possible she loved him for himself alone. Yet if he deliberated calmly and rationally on the subject, he knew that it was so. His own good sense—his power to estimate the human cha- racter—and the thousand and one little evidences which tend to prove 4 disinterested att COUN (C DOO or