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of the lady's room stood ajar, as he had left it, and in answer to his

"tapping at the chamber-door," a sweet feminine voice called "come in"

Ormiston promptly obeyed, and the next instant they were in the room,

and in the presence of the dead bride Certainly she did not look dead,

but very much alive, just then, as she sat in an easy-chair, drawn up

before the dressing-table, on which stood the solitary lamp that illumed

the chamber In one hand she held a slass," in which she was conte her own

beauty, with as ht justly

do She had changed her drenched dress during Or amplitude of rose-colored satin, her dark

hair clasped and bound by a circle often degrees ht rose-silk, shining dark hair, and rich white jewels She

rose up as they entered, and caht in her eyes that one of the eyelashes, lovely as a vision in the centre of the

roo your ladyship's co low "Mistress Leoline, allow sley bent alh chancellor had done before Queen Miranda; and the lady

courtesied, in return, until her pink-satin skirt ballooned out all over

the floor It was quite an affecting tableau And so Orravity