The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 386: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXVIII | | SAGOONAH | On the following day, punctual to the hour of appoint- ment, Madame Angelique was at the spot where she was to meet Sagoonah. She was not kept many moments waiting before the ayah made her appearance, and the latter at once said, ‘‘ Whatsoever you may have to tell me, be brief, for — Mark is about the premises.”’ ‘“‘ Sagoonah,” replied Madame Angelique, at once coming to the point, for the interview of the previous day had given her a deeper insight into the Hindu woman’s character than she had ever obtained before, — ‘ Sagoonah, have you a particular feeling to appease or gratify, and yet dare not follow its bent? ”’ 7 “What would you have me do?” asked the ayah, her dark, lustrous eyes fixed searchingly upon the milliner’s b countenance. | ‘“T know not what feeling inspires you toward your mis- ; tress,” was Madame Angelique’s quick rejoinder, “‘ but this I do know, that if I entertained hate or jealousy in respect ? to another, I would not scruple to obey the impulse.” ; “TI told you that you were a temptress in my path,” replied Sagoonah, “ and it is so,’”’ but she lingered at the fence, and her eyes wandered slowly over the Frenchwoman’s countenance, while the white drapery rose and sank with the heavings of her bosom. “I have been told,’ continued the milliner, “ that the Hindu women are armed with a terrible fortitude, that they él are courageous under all circumstances, that they are strong and firm, resolute and decided, in avenging the wrongs they have sustained, in appeasing the hatred excited within them, 364 a) we a wan” lil M4 ~~ Se > =o ae aes r hehre’ = A a ~~ CONIC OOOKS «Colin