The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 244: what you’re looking at

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a THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. a wea safe to relax into a smile, which was however grim and | repulsive enough. She then rose and took her departure. ~ It being now the hour when supper was served ap in the young ladies’ room, Mrs. Brace repaired thither to preside at the table; and it was eleven Jelook when ahe returned to her own private par- four. The Prince of Wales was waiting for her shere, Octavia Clarendon having left him a few ‘Thinutes previously. he s evils which you presaged just now, my dear ‘frighdys, he said, speaking in an agitated manner, fare, i already dev eloping themselves. Octavia has ob- Teined: -my:portrait, ih which she discovers @ mar- “sellous likeness to Afr." ', Harley. And .no . wongler, *jiidéed!yq But, she has likewise had dreams which have left strange. thoughts. behind ; ; and, ‘the faintest whitper—the, slightest incident will cause the ‘whole fatal tryth to fash to her comprehension.” “ She has told yeu all this?” said Mra Brace, geviously alarmed. _ . 20 rn _ | before the time when I have solemaly ‘p 238 as i at <\. 4 £ WOOP “Yea—and in the most arta manner possible” ee the Prince. “Then wherefore did you not = opportaaity to break to her gradually who you really are——” . “ Because it is in the nature of man to put cff the: hour of evil or of danger as tong as possible,” intér- rupted his Royal Highness; “and because she frightened me by certain observations which she e.” “ And those observations!” said the milliner in quiringly. .“ Were,to the effect that if I deceived her, she woul throw herself at the feet of the King and de- mand‘justice!". responded the Prince, in a low solemn atone. J he danger is most. derious—maost ° menacing ! It vould be as much asall my*prospects ‘of wearing the crown are worth ——"" gr ow “Yes; exposure would be cathaledaran r peony Mrs Brace, in a musing manner. ~«] have managed to obtain 2 daley att ws six weg} sain ede gh hi comicbooks.conn