The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 359: what you’re looking at

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328 REYNOLDS’ WORKS of the false Sagoonah was at any moment to apply the torch, and she was horrified, she was astounded in one sense, but in another how grateful was she! And there, by the side of that couch on which the guilty woman lay, now silently sleeping once more, Indora knelt, and in the fervour of her Christian piety she poured forth her thanksgiving to the true God whom by Clement Redcliffe she had been taught to worship. Nothing more came that night from the lips of Sagoonah, and Queen Indora retired to rest in an adjoining room. Frequently, however, during the night did this royal lady rise to see that the nurse who in the meanwhile had taken her place was doing her duty toward the invalid, for notwithstanding that Indora had now obtained the com- plete reading of the whole sum of Sagoonah’s monstrous iniquity, yet not for an instant would she neglect that being whom her own kind cares had saved from dissolution. The queen heard Christina return home in the carriage, and she could scarcely restrain herself from hastening at once to tell the young lady how all the mysteries of Sa- goonah’s wickedness were cleared up, and how the motive of Christina’s forced abduction at the time was now thoroughly comprehended. But Indora resolved to wait until the morn- ing, for she knew that Miss Ashton must feel fatigued after the entertainment from which she had returned so late. The queen did not suffer her young friend to be disturbed until she herself rang the bell for the maid shortly after nine o’clock in the morning, and then Indora, who was already up, proceeded to Christina’s chamber. ‘My dear girl,” she said, ‘‘ there are many topics upon which I have never spoken to you much, or at which I have only lightly glanced, but it is now suitable that you should know more of those subjects.” With this brief preface the queen osoneael to explain to the horrified and amazed Christina how Sagoonah in her uneasy slumbers avowed sufficient to prove with what murderous intention she was inspired, when penetrating one night into her chamber, adding, “‘ And it was you, my sweet Christina, who were my guardian angel at the time. Yes, Sagoonah herself has declared that you are an angel.” The queen then recited the ayah’s unconscious confession relative to the cobra di capello, and also in respect to Chris- tina’s forcible abduction by the infamous Frenchwoman. CONNICLOOKS (E(0)