The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 134: what you’re looking at

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112 THE COURT OF LONDON ejaculated Fernanda. ‘‘ No, Walter, it is to make my peace with Arthur Eaton, to assure him of my forgiveness, to demand his pardon likewise, and to propose a sincere friendship for the future, — it is for all these purposes that I shall seek an interview with him to-morrow.”’ ‘‘Incomprehensible woman, what do you mean?”’ cried her husband, now utterly bewildered. ‘‘T mean to render my vengeance the more certain and my own safety the more secure,’’ was the deep-toned, sub- dued, and significant reply. ‘‘ But now let us ring for champagne, my dear Walter,” she. cried, starting from his knees and resuming her seat; ‘“‘ and then, while the blood boils in our veins and excess of rapturous feelings enables us to contemplate crime with indifference, then, my lion- hearted Walter, will I, your tiger-cat, unfold my projects to your ears.” And Lord Holderness rang the bell for the exhilarating juice of Epernay; and then his eyes remained fixed with mingled delight and awe and terror upon that countenance whose ravishing beauty so strangely belied the aspect of the hidden soul, and he felt indeed that he had taken unto his bosom the most dangerous of serpents with the loveliest of skins. CONnnICMooolks (CO)