Sketches
Sketches
The Carrier Pigeon, The Consul's Daughter, Walstein--or A Cure for Melancholy, The Court of Egypt, The Valley of Thebes, Egyptian Thebes, Shoubra Eden and Lebanon, A Syrian Sketch, The Bosphorus, An Interview with a Great Turk, Munich, The Spirit of Whiggism
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r bed--here were resources--here was hope!
Full of these thoughts, some time elapsed before she was struck at the unusual mode in which the communication reached her. Where was Mignon? But the handwriting was the handwriting of Lothair. That she could not mistake. She might, however, have observed that the characters were faint--that the paper had the appearance of being stained or washed; but this she did not observe. She was sanguine--she was confident in the wisdom of Lothair. She knelt before an image of the Virgin, and poured forth her supplications for the success of their enterprise. And then, exhausted by all the agitation of the day, the Lady Imogene sunk into a deep repose.
CHAPTER VI.
Flight and Discovery
MORN came at length, but brought no Mignon. 'He has his reasons,' answered the Lady Imogene: 'Lothair is never wrong. And soon, right soon, I hope, we shall need no messenger.' Oh, what a long, long
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