The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 203: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XIV THE MILLINER Bot in the meanwhile, let us see what had taken place at the villa residence of the Princess Indora. The carriage left that house at about three o’clock in order to reach the Regent’s Park at the hour appointed to fetch Christina home; and Mark, the steward, went with it as far as Oxford Street, as he had several purchases to make on behalf of the household which he superintended. Sagoonah issued forth as if to walk in the garden, and her tall, lithe, supple form, arrayed in the white garments of an ayah, was lost amidst the avenues of embowering trees. There was a strange expression in Sagoonah’s lustrous eyes; they seemed to burn with an unearthly light, a mingled fierceness and satisfaction hovered in their luminous depths, defying all power of description. Her lips of vivid scarlet were at first compressed as if with the resoluteness of some settled purpose, but on reaching the extremity of the garden, where it was bounded by a close fence separating it from a field, the ayah paused to listen, and then her thin, bright lips, parting with the hushed state of suspense, revealed her teeth of ivory whiteness and purity. The finely modelled bust, which the white garment only partially concealed, and which in its round and well-divided contours, unsupported by corset, resembled sculptured marble of a dusky hue, remained upheaved with that same suspense. Then she advanced through the shrubs, and looked over thefence. She perceived a female very handsomely dressed, and carrying a large brown paper parcel in her hands, loitering about in the field. Sagoonah, on catching that female’s eye, made an imperious sign for her to advance; the woman hastened to obey it, and came close up under the fence. 185 ECORNICLOO <S) (E©) im