The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 226: what you’re looking at

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‘1 pesocive Ghat you have only recently } in tivelr ined witheaites, was |in tlis aeighbourheod,” phacsved the mobleman ; fend dhe reocomtnertdations ief en inilarwtial friend | ‘en@-mourdfel mood, abneay tho wereet, mig met poeus 8 daden enailiaty boyour own pro- | Seuntonal abilities. Those reeomeaendations shall you have from me—that friend will I become.” | “I most aineemely. thank your lendship,” said Mr. : that aven withent: these. tein —these | genevens promieus, iahonld not‘the.less be dsith- | fal to any confidence which you teay zepoge in | ni.” “ Lady Desboroughand myself have our regular | ‘ phypdician,,” ‘contioned: the Eenl: “but it ieppens that. our surgeon: das tapely quitted: 4 Guence upon him, he fixed his eyes fora few mo- | you shall henceforth supply his place. De not ments on the brase-plate—then walted on a fow j‘however @iink, Mr. Tharstgn,”. he added mmphati- | paces—then..Jocked back aguin at the sargeon’s | edily, “shat 3 am exying ‘allthis merely aith a view | abode—and then pursued his way, but with every | to-bind you 4a my interests. or appeal 40 a valgar ; ; anecesnary feeling. Such is not my dateution: I am fe was wrestling with the thought fieat kad flashed | incapable ef thus insulting you. But I wish you ‘to his mind, and which prompted him on the ene 1 te understand that Lhave reselved ¢o consult you nané to adopt a ‘course whence ekame and & deep | in a certain matter---to ‘erftrust you with my sad sense of treniliation deterred him, on, the other, ‘decret-sacid to placed:he utmost reliance upon you, | S& length, before he had galwed the end ef the | because we have hitherto been total strangers to ‘street, ‘he turned wth the decision of a man whe | cach Other—decanse you-comedato a sow neigh- oas abruptly resolved on taking a particular ‘step, | boewheed where.some triflmg amonné ef patronage | although a disagrecatic one >—and, retracing tae may be useful~-aad beonuse-——" | pach to the surgeeh’s house, he Snecked at the | “Because you believe that under any ciesum- stances, Iam mote likely to keep your fordship’s oA Jomnestio in a handsome divery immediately an- | secret than aa established practitioner who wastes wwered: the sunimons, and inquired the visttar’s { half lis thme in idle chit-chat with these faniilics at ‘game so that he might learn whether he were .a | whose ‘houses he is on an intimate footing. This is - (fend of ‘the family or a pationt, and migtt show | your lotdship's view,” added Mr. Dharstea, in a aim into the drawing-room or the surgery-pariour | decisive tone ;—-“ and i is a: corvestenc. Lam not nocordingiy. efended—I thank your lordship for that promise [ | “ST -wish to consult your master profeasionally,”: |:of patronage whieh Eo E-cordially accept—and every ‘wes the reply, bot unaccompanied with the an-/ way will I prove myself worthy of your lordship’s aouncement of any name. favour sad countenance.” ‘The.domestic led the way through a fine marble; “I am glad that you have out the mater thus tall, to acarpetted passage communicating with the | frankly upon ‘its proper basis,” enid the Hari: then surgery-pariour, which joined the ‘surgery ‘itself, |.drawing forth from his purse a baak-note fer five both being -at the back part of the house. The 'heandred pounds, he added, “ Dhis is your retain- parlour was a smuill bat elegantly furnished soem, '| ing fee.” aaving double doors alike at the entrance from the; Mr. Thusston bowed ‘his thanks, end placed him- ‘passage, and also:on the ide opening into the anv. | self'in an atéitude uf desp attention. gery——so timt nothing which transpired within| “I must ‘inform yous, sir” sescmred the Kari, his those four walls could beheard without. A cheer- | manner suddenly becvming ‘pakifally ensbatrassed, fal fire biaxed in ‘the grate ; ahd Mr. Thurston rose | “that I appreach with the deepest 4rumiliation— from a ‘tablé where he hud been engaged inwriting, | ‘with the aoutest sense Of shame---the subject of my when ‘the visitor was conducted ‘into his presence. ; visit. Married fer :wome yours to a lady of entra- “Your name, sir [ said Mr. Thurston, preparing | ordinary ‘beauty and of the stristest wirtae, but to inscribe in anew book the appellativn of his first |-whese temperament is watarallly of an ardent, glow- patient at the new abode. ing, and im neture—l.- ut just hea- “It were aridicalous affectation to conceal it,” | ven! how can I induce my tongue to frame the was ‘the answer; “beesase T live ‘at no very great j-cunfession -~—” distance, and beosuse my rank ‘would be certain. t | And,.saddenty stasting fom the seat which he tender you acquainted with my person in a short ] had tuken on eottering the room, the Marl began to time. Nevertheless, it is in the strictest ecnifidence, | pave to and fre in the wildest agétation. and relying on your honour, that I heve ceme.to? -Mr. Thursten:said agthing: le was ant intimate consult you upon an fmportant—an ‘afflicting—a j envagh.with the noblemm &o venture upon words most delicate matter. I mn‘the Keri of Des- fof consolation, although ke more than half sus- borough.” peeted the natare of She secret which was about to Mr. Thurston wrote down the name in Ais bdck | be revealed 'to ‘him. and then said, “Your lordship may trust me. JI | Suddenly checking his frantic walk up and down have no interest in ‘betraying the confidence thus | the surgery-parbour, ‘the Batliaid his right hand reposeti in me-—bat every possible reason tecus- | heavily upon the surgeon's shoulder—and bend- tain it. Your lordship may ikewise speak fear. | ing his head watil ‘his lips mearly ¢oucked Thurs- leesty: not a word uttered in this reom ean be | ton's curs, he said in a thick, hoarse, andlow voice, heard without.” o“ Fave thousand pounds ere yeurs.if you cas give ‘ a aaa aa | of the house had just been repaired and iaspeoved, | ‘| ghd he also remetndered Ghat it was for seme time to let until within a week or two past; so that iall @oubt: was removed ‘from ‘his nied as to Mr. | Thurston being a very recent seteler'in thattashion- ECOMnuiclooolkks co