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266 HB MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. Our young hero visited his sister Christina, and | therefore immediately take any step to procure a acquainted her with everything that had occurred. | new situation: nor did he for the present think He displayed so much grief at this sudden and of leaving his lodging in the vicinage of the Earl's cruel separation from Isabella Vincent—he spoke | mansion. He had plenty of ready money; and as so fervidly of the love which he cherished towards | his habits were frugal and inexpensive—his only her—and declared with euch passionate wehemence | extravagance consisting in the nicety and almost that his happiness was entirely centred im that-| elegance of his apparel—he could subsist for some beauteous and charming creature, that Christine | time on the resources which he had in hand. But from her brother’s words and manner soquired s | how to obtain the interview with Isabella? This somewhat deeper reading into the mysteries of her | wae the difficulty. For several days after he left own heart; and she could now less than ever mis- | the Earl’s eupisymnent, he vemly busied himeelf take the feclimg which she herself entertained | m meditations wpom the best means to carry out towards Lord inn Meredith. But she did his view. Misses flan once be thought of be- her best to conssis axl encourage her brother; amd | seeching Lord Ovssumd’s good offices: for it was perhaps with thay amiable paspose im view, sho | evident to Christies that the young nobleman was spoke more cheerfally of the hope whick a faithful ' far from unfaveurable to the love-euid wheeh had love might entertain than was pesfectly consistent , brought about so dimetrous = catastrophe its the with the misgivings she secretBy experienced. om | sammer-houst. Bui yet he applied not to behalf of Christinn’s passion. er she coukd not | Adolphas help seeing thad i wae indeed most unlikely the| Im the mesmnebiis the Coantess of Lescelles and Earl of Lascelles would ever consent to bestow his | Lox Osmond hed besw particalarly om their niece upon an ebsrurs young man fotally depen- | guasd, for fear lest the efi nobleman’s suspicivus dent on hie ows midastsy for his bread, dhould be revived, Nevevtbelem, Ethel contiwund Nevertheless, as wo have jat obmeved — | to escupy thou mparate apartments whisk we Christina—with the kindest of nrotives—spoke | have en @ fiznese occasion devcsibed; and on a cheermgly to her brother; and he went away | variety of peuteste she avoided a resum to the from that interview comforted, and with a sense | matrimonial cowsh. Lord Osmond deeply de- of reviving hope. As he wended his way beck to | plored Christian’s departure fom the mansion, es wards his lodgings in Kensington, he fe% himself | his presence there had csueed @ diversiow in re- gradually falling inte those day-dreams in which | spect #» Iesbella which had thrown the yeang youthful lovers ase wont to indalge; and his | noblesuas and Ethel constantly together. Now, thoughts flowed in something like the following | since that catastrophe in the semmer-houwe, Isa- channel :-—~ belly Lend been almost constantly with the Countess ; “Who can tell what the future may hewe im | end Oemend began to despair of agaim enjoying store for me? Heaven has often blessed the loves | Btiel’s society alone. of those whose prospects at the cutest wens even | As for te Barl himeelf,—he had been a bewil- darker than mine. Ah! if [could but obtam one| dered By the incidente which led to Claistian’s _more interview with Isabella—if we couill ence | sammary dismissal, that for several days he knew more exchange vows and protestations of cfernal | not how tt ast or what to think. Thaé his eon fidelity—-I should feel happier: my mind sared beep Is mices were sof lovers, as he had all become moze sxtifed—and 5 should have a better | alomg Mettered himself, had suddenly been made heart to search after frash exrpployment. But as it | appusent: that Christinm and Isabella must have is, I feel a¢ & boes how to act: L ene fim meq Beon far more together tte he had supposed, was thoughts upon xothing decisive. Ok, you! to soe : likewise evident: and that therefore Osmond mast her once more—to recetve from her sweet lips the | have been the companion of the Countess in the assurance that under no circumstances of per-j|evening walks in the garden, was a natural de- suasion or coercion will she ever become anoéitaz’s, | ductiow fhuwe those premises. Thus the old Karl —this indeed were happiness! Then, mapped | was agitated with renewed suspicion: bute feel- with fondest and brightest hope, I could battle | ing of mingled pride and shame prevented him with the world; and if industry and integrity | from again touching on the subject with his valet ever throve by their own undasisted resources, I | Makepeace, and likewise from teking any deuisive would assuredly carve out a position for myself. | sep—euch, for instance, as to insist thes his am And who can tell but that the day will come when | should again become an exile from. the. house. I may secure a competency, and thus feel myself; A length Lord Osmond was determined te de justified in conducting Isabella to the altar? Our | something to bring aboué s change in afflaie. His wants would be limited: a neat littls rural habi- | mad infatuation towards his youthful and lowly tation would suffice: and however humble its | mother-in-law would not permit him te remain aspect, yet the light of love would gild the interior | any longer #0 completely on his guard, nor to as if it were a splendid saloon, and impart a richer , tolerate the almost complete severance ftom her bloom to the flowers festooning outside. And we | which Isabella’s presence in her ladyship’s apart- should be #0 happy—Ohb, so happy !—and Isabella ments nesessitated. He spoke te Makepeace: but would nover regret her uncle’s palatial man-|the valet could say nothing more than that the sion.” . Earl maintained a atriet silence with regard to Such reflections as these—whioch, as the reader ' resent events. may perceive, were borrowed from the fanciful; One morning—abous ten days after Christien’s realme of dream-land—wrapped the soul of the | abrupt dismissal from the house—Lord Osmond enthusiastic Christian in a species of ecstacy: but | paid him a second visit at his lodgings, We have the pivot, be 16 observed, on which the whole | already said that our bero had more than ones be- Vision turned, was the idea of first of all obtain- ing a partang interview with Imbeila. He did not good offices towards obtaining an in | thought himself of seeking the young noblememis oamnen Sg -o- pi i ele oom = @ ee Oe ae C) CO IMULUG DOO CS (COL