The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 93: what you’re looking at

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74 REYNOLDS’ WORKS she had therefore no reason to hesitate about bringing our heroine into the vicinage of that nobleman’s dwelling, for she knew that it was situated in the Regent’s Park. On the other hand, when the proposal to visit the gardens was made to Christina, she had not dared hint that she would rather not proceed into a neighbourhood where she stood a chance of falling in with Lord Octavian, because to have raised any objection of the kind would as a matter of course have necessitated the revelation of those circumstances which maiden modesty and virgin bashfulness naturally prompted her to conceal. There were very few visitors at the Zookpesa Gardens on the occasion when the Princess Indora and Christina, attended by Sagoonah, thus visited them. Her Hieieees wore an Oriental garb, but the very plainest which belonged to her wardrobe, and she had carefully dispensed with much ornament, so as to avoid as much as possible attracting notice. The ayah was clad in her habitual white costume; Christina’s toilet displayed an elegant neatness. Three such beings could not possibly enter a public place without striking the notice of those who were also there, few though they were. All three being characterized by a remarkable beauty, — that of Indora so magnificent, that of Sagoonah so darkly splendid, and that of our heroine so exquisitely interesting in its classic perfection, — two of them moreover Wearing peculiar costumes, — it was impossible that they could escape special attention. Yet the persons who were there pressed not rudely upon them, but moved as it were at a respectful distance, until when it was whispered by one of the officials that the principal object of interest was an Eastern lady of rank and fortune, and then this announce- ment was taken as a hint that the little party wished to be as free from observation as possible during their visit to the gardens. | At first Sagoonah kept tolerably close to her mistress and Christina, but gradually she increased the interval between herself and them. This she was easily enabled to do without exciting any particular attention on their part, for it ap- peared by no means strange that she should linger a little behind them to contemplate some particular animal or bird belonging to a clime far remote and different from her own, and which specimens of natural history she had consequently CORMIECIOOKS (E(0)