The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 87: what you’re looking at

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63 REYNOLDS’ WORKS You must recall the vow you made to the effect that you will attempt nothing more so long as she remains beneath her ladyship’s roof. Doubtless you have still the same motive, — yes, you must have — your feeling of rancour against your mistress is still the same, — and now you have an additional interest in removing her as speedily as possible from your path.” ‘An additional interest? ’’ said Sagoonah, with a slight tincture of curiosity in her accents, and then she coldly added, ‘‘I do not understand you.” ““T can speedily explain myself,” rejoined Madame Angelique, ‘‘ and I think I can show you that your interests are now mixed up with my own.’ A smile of superb contempt curled the thin vermilion lips of the ayah, and she said, as if haughtily spurning the bare idea, ‘‘ My interests in any way common with your own? ”’ “T will soon make it apparent,’ answered Madame Angelique. “ Listen attentively. The Lady Indora has already begun to wreak her vengeance upon me, —it matters not how, — but I have the positive proof that it is so,” and she shuddered as she thought of Mr. Shadbolt. ‘ This being the case, there can be no doubt that the Lady Indora will go on persecuting me, and even if she be desirous to remain in the background, she can induce Miss Ashton to take legal proceedings of a very serious character against me.” ‘“¢ And in what does all this concern me? ”’ asked Sagoonah, with scornful impatience. ‘“‘ Because I have consented to listen to you on former occasions, to aid your projects, and even to appear to become the instrument for carrying out your views, think you that I will any more mix myself up with the concerns of one whose artifices are so clumsily arranged that they invariably fail? Look at your poltroon duke who feared to seized upon the golden opportunity; look at your own scheme of last night, which the merest accident — a collision of vehicles — served to baffle. No, I will have nought more to do with you or your con- cerns, until you show yourself worthy of my complicity by removing this girl Ashton from within the walls of the villa.”’ “TI will speedily convince you, Sagoonah,”’ resumed ECORNICLIOOKS (E(0)