The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 367: what you’re looking at

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708 :¢ had been that after the ceremonies, the Count was to bear his bride into Spain—where shey were to take up their abode on his ancestral estates in the Principality of Catalonia. They | quitted Paris in a post-chaise,—the Countess at- | sanded by her maid~the Count by a valet who | had been a considerable time in his service. But | to take a fairer view of their prospects than at the first glance they seemed to present; and as the journey was continued southward, she deliberated with her husband upon the course to be adopted. | He suggested that they should push on to the very verge of the Pyrenees, and that their acres hart should be passed in some quiet retreat within during the journey southward, they saw in the | French frontier, whence they might not only watch newspapers that there had been one of those sudden | the changes of Ministry seourrence in Spain; and the Count was over- whelmed with affliction. It was some time before Juliana could obtain from him the revelation of the cause of that sorrow which had thus so ab- ruptly seized upon him. fA length however, PY dint of caresses and entreaties, she gleaned the following explanations :—~ He had originally been an officer in the Queen’s service; but as his sympathies were always in favour of Don Carlos, he hed passed over with « considerable portion of his regrment to that Prince’s aide. For this action he had been excluded from the amnesty which took place at the termination of the civil war: but he was given to after a little while, that he might in all safety re- turn to his estates, which had not been confiscated. This circumstance of the non-confiscation of his property—together with the secret intelli forwarded to him that he might go beck to his ancestral mansion—was to be ascribed to the fact of affairs in Spain, bat the Count which were of such frequent might also communicate with his intendant in Ca- to Juliana HE ; i Ty ify Ale 1 rE The the inclusion of the Count’s name in the The’ Count did return to his estates, where for some he lived unmolested: he then went to Paris, and fell in with Juliana, whom he married. held the reins of power; and no measure was adopted towards his own personal molestation or the seizure of his domains: he had therefore con- sidered: himself perfectly secure, and altogether justified in espousing her who had captivated his heart. But now this sudden overthrow of the last Ministry had brought into office his most impla- cable enemy, at whose hands everything was to be dreaded; and hence the grief with which he was | i overwhelmed on reading the intelligence in the newspapers. Such was the narrative of explanations which the Oount de Toledo gave Juliana: and she was naturally much at a circumstance which threatened to render her husband a exile from his country. Besides, the Count had repre- sented his Catalan mansion and his surrounding estates in such glowing colours, that the bride was | on the other hand, he was much attached to her. naturally desirous to be introduced to the , It is certain that he had espoused her not with the residence and the wide domains of which she had ' idea that she possessed any means of become the mistress ; and therefore her disappoint. | importance ; because she had not deceived him on ment and her affliction ware all the more bitter. | that paint: nor indeed, when He fortunately had still a | gion to any funds which she mig very considerable supply of ready money at his | emergency obtain from her mother. But he liked com™arvi: he knew also that the intendant cf hil her for herself alone. She was remarkably hand- domains had ample funds in hand, and was a | some;—since her confinement her charms had ex- strictly honourable man—so that it would only be pended into a richer exuberance than even that needful to communicate with him, in order to | which they before posseseed; and being a creature obtain the prompt handing over of these immedi- | of luxurious temperament, she was well calculated ately availabse resources. Juliana was thus enabled | to please the fervid Speniard. There was some UP PED ENS a 2 A Gy ett @m ge Uwe 7 -_ = =@a-e® @ ~ O-owr -GER CO a ww « —_ pep: » a a ees - - oe es - eo @eav eo ~ 0 cane Cap— (COL (C DOO CS (COL