The Mysteries of the Court of London (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Mysteries of the Court of London
Again several minutes elapse; and then with a slow mechanical movement, as if unconscious of the very impulse which she is obeying, Eliza stoops down and picks up the letter which has fallen from her hand - that letter which has pro duced all which we have just been describing. And now she sits down, and reads it calmly and deliberately. Oh, with what a calmness! It is the calmness which the ocean of hyperborean regions displays when frozen into solid ice, - the calmness of that glacial spell which can alone tranquillize the mighty waters that if the tabs manic power were removed, would boil and rage in all the wild ebullition of the tempest. It is the calmness Of the volcano that sleeps under a power superior to its own, when its lava is hard ened into petrifaction-but which, if the spell should be removed, and a spark should be set to the in ammable concrete, would pour forth the gush of the burning levin.
Eliza read the letter mechanically - deliberately - from the first word to the last. It was finished; and then only did she display any outward emo tion: then only was it that a strange expression - a sad expression indeed to be seen upon the countenance of one so young and beautiful - passed slowly over her' features, while simultaneously a. Glacial tremor trailed itself as slowly through her entire form.
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