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like a cloud of silver mist over all, from head to foot; and Leoline was

shown herself in a mirror, and in the sudden transformation, could

have exclaimed, with the unfortunate lady in bother Goose, shorn of her

tresses when in balmy slumber: "As sure as I'm a little woman, this is

none of it!" But she it was, nevertheless, who stood listening like one

in a trance, to the enthusiastic praises of her waiting-ain there was a tap at the door This tie reappeared Even he stood for avision, and so lost in ade But when Leoline turned the light of her beautiful eyes

inquiringly upon hied to re to usher her to the royal presence

With a feet-throbbing heart, flushed cheeks, and brilliant eyes, the

dazzling bride followed him, unconscious that she had never looked so

incomparably before in her life It was but a few hours since she had

dressed for another bridal; and onderful things had occurred since

then--her whole destiny had changed in a night Not quite sure yet but

that she was still dreareat doors of the audience-chamber, and found herself suddenly in

what seemed to her a vast concourse of people At the upper end of the

apart's beautiful

favorite in their

himself stood in the recess of a ith his brother, the Duke of

York, the Earl of Rochester, and Sir Nor animatedly to the two peers the whole story Leoline

noticed this, and noticed, too, that all wore traveling dresses---habits