The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 316: what you’re looking at

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the eluck of Oaklands pro- sven, we direct the attention Silent, if not altogether six persons: but all except Oceasional though scarcely \of either uneasiness or else | Guch aa awe or suspense. eyes burnt with = strung | lips were aligbtly upart— ving in the least, but with motion indicating that ber nd ber mind inteot on one e had the convictivun of being She did not once glance ve who were seated on her : left: she remained motion- scat—not with agrace- ih all the natuy’. and un- osture which was likewise wfect dignity of her quoeuly | Purvis, the steward, entered the apartment. He RTO SKBIES. bearing, She -scarcely seemed to breathe, so statue-like was she! —fur there was no tumultuous heaving nor falling of the superb busom, ev rich and eo well developed in its sculptural oon- tours. Altogether, with that magnificent und beauteous lady upon her throne—with the five figures (two masked and three veiled) on her right and left—with the funeral hangings to the walls and the sable pall spread upon the ceiling —with the white flour-carpet, giving ghastly reflection to tho lees than dim cathedral light that pervaded the epartment—with that powerful lustre which shone forth for a few yarue trom sue iuner room — and with the tomb-like stillness which prevailed,. —it was a ecene full well valculated to strike awe and terror into the sul of avy one who might be brought into tho presence of the royal Indora. lp a few wioutes the sable drapery on one side of the roum w.6 agilated: it opened—and old .c- comicibooks.conm