The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 129: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XII THE BARONET — THE MARQUIS THE reader will be pleased to remember that Sir Douglas Huntingdon had obtained the pardon of Theodore Varian through the medium of Lady Sackville. On the occasion when he called upon her for this purpose, he had explained all his adventures at Shooter’s Hill, — everything that regarded Ariadne, — concluding with the description of this young damsel’s death. The reader will likewise recollect that Venetia had listened to him with a glitter of something like jealous uneasiness in her eyes; but that when she found the baronet speaking of Ariadne only as an object of com- passion, Venetia’s countenance brightened up. Lastly, it must be remembered that when he described Ariadne’s death, — as the trance was then supposed to be, — Venetia had murmured to herself a few words expressive of a wish that the day of retribution might sooner or later overtake the Marquis of Leveson. More than a week had now elapsed since that interview between Lady Sackville and Sir Douglas Huntingdon, and during this interval the baronet had not called again at Carlton House. Venetia was therefore ignorant of the cir- cumstance of Ariadne’s restoration to life, which indeed had only taken place a couple of days previous to the one whereof we are now writing, and we should observe that the interest and the gold of the Marquis of Leveson had succeeded in keeping the circumstance out of the newspapers of the day. “You must have thought that something fatal had happened to me,” observed the baronet, as he entered the boudoir; ‘‘ that is to say, if you condescend to devote a moment’s thought to me at all? ” ‘““My dear Douglas,” said Venetia, motioning him to take 108 Gomicbdooks (E(@)