The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 206: what you’re looking at

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LL LS | { THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. 198 a a long letter to his weil-teloved Louisa,—for he felt a profound longing thus to commune with the dear one, by committing to paper all the tender things and fond assurances which he would have breathed in her ears had they been together. CHAPTER LY. FASHIONABLE DEPRAVITY. Mrs. Ranoer and Julia ocoupied the same sleep- ing-spartment at the Hotel Meurice; while Agatha and Emma shared another. The chamber-maid had been ordered to rouse them at nine o'clock in the morning: and accord- ingly, if we peep about half-an-hour later into the chamber oo by the two eldest sisters, we shell find them in the midst of the avocations of tho toilette. . “Now what think you of our handsome travel- ling companion, Mr. Jocelyn Loftust” inquired Agatha, as she combed out her long brown hair before the immense mirror in which her whole person was reflected, as she stood with naked shoulders and bare bosom in an attitude of indesoribable volup- tuousness and unstudied grace. ~ “I think that he is the handsomest young man I ever beheld in all my life,” answered Emma, who was lacing on her coreet in front of another mirror which reproduced with equal fidelity all the tich contours and fine proportions of her own softly sensuous form. “ But what else do you think of him, Emma f inquired her eldest sister. “scarcely know how to answer you,” was the response. a 1. comliclbooks.com