The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 151: what you’re looking at

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128 REYNOLDS’ WORKS front door of the villa. The evening had closed in, but it was a beautiful clear one, and_all objects were plainly visible in the flood of argentine lustre which poured down from a cloudless sky. | 3 We must for a brief space leave Sagoonah, just as she is beginning to glide through the garden attached to the villa, and we must return to an individual of whom indeed we have very recently spoken. This was Barney the Burker. - At about four o’clock in the afternoon of the day of which we are writing, — and which was the one following his ad- ventures with old Jonathan Carnabie and with Jack Smedley, — the Burker bent his steps a second time toward Queen Indora’s villa. He was habited in his Jewish garb which we have already described, and which was indeed a most ef- fectual disguise against the peering vision of even the keenest- sighted officer of justice. The dense foliage of evergreens, shrubs, and trees which embowered so large a portion of the grounds attached to the villa afforded the Burker an easy opportunity of penetrating into the enclosure unperceived by any of the inmates of the dwelling. He concealed himself in the midst of that clump which was in the immediate vicinage of the fountain, and which had afforded him a hiding-place on the preceding day. Presently he beheld Indora walking through the grounds, in company with a gentleman whom he instantaneously rec- ognized. This was the one who had pursued him almost to his capture at Woodbridge, when he had saved himself by plunging into the river, — the same too whom he had seen on the preceding evening at Mr. Chubb’s front door. But the Burker was ignorant that the gentleman bore the name of Clement Redcliffe. Queen Indora was then apparelled in the same costume in which the Burker had seen her on the pre- ceding day, namely, the semi-English, semi-Eastern garb of which we have been speaking. He-was not long in perceiving that she gazed with tenderness on her companion; he saw that she loved him. At first the magnificent beauty of the queen produced upon the Burker an almost overpowering influence, similar to that which he experienced on the previous day, but this gradually wore off, as in his ambush he reflected on the absolute necessity there was for him to accomplish the task assigned by the Duke of Marchmont, and reap those rewards which were to be the price of his iniquity. Besides, ECORNICLIIOOKS (E(0)