The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 343: what you’re looking at

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3383 a for instance, Sir Edgar and Lady Beverley, Si? | suddenly regained her self-posseusion, and gathered Frederick and Ledy Letham, and Captain Stanley were ¢ visitors ab Marchmont House: nor must we omit to observe that Sir William Stanley himself, when passing any time in the metropolis, was a welcome guest in Belgrave Sqaare. Lord Octavian Meredith and Zoe still remained abroad : but frequently did Christina with her friend, Armytage’s daughter, who indeed had proved one of the very first to send written con- gratulations to both hereelf and her brother on when six months should have elapsed from the date of the evente at Oaklands; and in the meantime the young lovers frequently saw each other. } One day a cab drove up to the door of March- mont House: but the occupant of it would not immediately get out. She—for this occupant was of the feminine gender—wes attired in her San- day apparel: she appeared in all the glory of a new silk gown, a very feshiorable bonnet, her gold i i lemon-coloared * Well,” said the worthy woman, “ this is in- deed a palace !|—and only thisk that I sheuld have what's called the oxfrde of it, and be treated by this powdered and laece-bedizened gentleman "— thus alluding to the lacquey—“iust for all the world as if I myself was a real lady! Ab, what did palace !—and what a lodging-house it dozen sets of apartments on the first floors alone ! They'd let each at four guineas a week :—four times twelve are forty-cight—that’s forty-eight guineas a week !—and one might add another twenty guineas for the letting of the upper rooms! Only conesive euch a lodging-house! it would be a fortune in asingle year! And the quantities of cold victuals that would be. left and never asked for! Why, if every lodger only left the leg of a fowl, and a single glass of wine in his decanter, {¢ would keep a regiment! And then too, people living in such a house would never think of lock- ing their tea-caddies, and marking the cheese and the bread to see that the servants didn’t touch them! Oh, what a lodging-house |” Mrs. Macaulsy was lost in mingled awe end wonderment at the vast feld which she hed thus opened for her own contemplation ; and the proba- bility is that ehe would have gone on wondering as long as there were any more stairs to ascend, if the:domestioa had been conducting her to the top of the house. Bat as be baited on the first Jand- ing, and threw open a door to announce in « very wad voices “ Mrs. Macaulay,”——the worthy woman herself together as it were for her appearance be- fore the twins. Although she had mustered the courage to pay thie visit, she felt by no means certain with regard the nature of the reception she should expe- She knew that she might reckon upon with civility: bat judging the world circumscribed i if ; E 4 ERLE a th ¥ i i E é BE iF ie 4! i it iy F i° ff ! bf E | ; i at the lodging-house she i 1 | : : f i k ] 3 2 iB, g g “ And pray how did it all end?” asked Chris tian, with a smile. ‘“‘ Why, Captain Blaff proved that he had never promised, but had only thrown sheep’s-eyes at the the court triumphant, with Cap- ever,” responded the worthy women: “she's sa jealous and envious, you know!—and whea she beera from the aeighbours how I’ve hed the OE Sa Sa pe il i @ ® COMMEOOO (CO