The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 34: what you’re looking at

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AN ARISTOCRATIC PAIR 15 ‘Oh, I have not time to discuss the point with you now,” exclaimed Editha, starting from her seat and laughing in a lively manner. “ It is seven o’clock, and I must hurry away. But I shall cheerfully promote the friendly feeling which you say has arisen between us once more. So now adieu; I am off to North Audley Street,’’ where, we should observe, Lady Lechmere resided. ‘And I shall go and pass the evening with Leveson,” said the earl, ‘ or else with Huntingdon, if the marquis should not be at, home.”’ The husband and wife both quitted the dining-room together. The former took down his hat from a peg in the hall, and sallied forth at once;-and Editha, having seen him thus take his departure, ascended to her own cham- ber. But the Earl of Curzon, instead of repairing to the Marquis of Leveson’s, hastened to the nearest hackney-coach stand, entered a Rar nela: and returned in it to the on aie vicinage of his own mansion. He ordered it to stop nearly opposite, as if waiting to receive a fare from the house at which it thus drew up; and remaining inside, he kept watch upon the door of his own dwelling. His wife’s carriage was already there, and in a few minutes he saw the front door open. Then a female figure, enveloped in a handsome cloak, and with a thick veil over her face, descended the stone steps and entered the carriage, which immediately drove away. Thrusting his head re the window of the hackney-coach, the earl directed the driver to follow the carriage at an easy distance; but when, in the course of a few minutes, he found that the equipage which he was pursuing turned into North Audley Street, he said to himself, ‘ Well, after all, she is really going to Lady Lechmere’s. Perhaps I have done her an injustice;”’ and yet the dark suspicion still remained in the profundity of his soul. The carriage stopped at Lady Lechmere’s; the hackney- coach halted a few doors off, and the earl again watched eagerly from the window. “ Yes, she enters the house, and the carriage drives away,” he muttered to himself. ‘‘I will now go and join the party at Lady Lechmere’s, invent some excuse for following Editha after what she said upon the proposal I made to accompany her, and endeavour to COUN a IDOOKS (CO)