The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 358: what you’re looking at

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AMY O27 Immediately after breakfast in the morning, Christian repaired to the villa of the Princess Indora, and on arriving there he was most fervently embraced by his loving and delighted sister. From the princess he experienced a most cordial welcome, and such was the state of his own feelings, with all his present prospects of happiness, that he did not perceive how for a moment Indora trembled, and how the colour went and came on her magnificent counte- nance, as he presented to her Clement Redcliffe’s letter. She retired to another apartment to peruse it, and the twins were left alone together. Then Christian informed his sister of everything that had taken place between him- self and Mr. Redcliffe on the preceding evening, and our amiable young heroine was infinitely rejoiced to hear that her beloved brother need no longer consider himself de- pendent on the precarious chances of employment for the means of subsistence. By the time Christian’s explanations were finished, the Princess of Inderabad returned to the room where she had left them together, and her Highness at once intimated to Christian that it was with infinite pleasure she granted the request conveyed in Mr. Redcliffe’s note. But if the twins had been more accustomed to penetrate into the human heart, if they had more curiosity in studying the looks of individuals, they might have suspected that there was more in Mr. Redcliffe’s billet than a mere request that Christina might be spared for the day; they would have fancied there was something which was of peculiar in- terest and importance to the Indian lady lkewise. While on their way in a hired vehicle from Bayswater to Mortimer Street, the twins had leisure for additional explanations. Christian made his delighted sister ac- quainted with the change that had taken place in respect to Isabella Vincent, — how she had become possessed of an immense fortune, — and how in her altered position she had renewed the assurances of love and constancy toward our hero. And then Christina recited, in fuller details than she had written to her brother when he was at Ramsgate, the particulars of the outrage she had under- gone when she was forcibly carried off from the villa, and when she was rescued by Lord Octavian Meredith. The artless girl concealed nothing; she explained to her brother CORNICLOO© <S (CO)