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Rosamond became very unhappy The uneasiness first stirred by her

aunt's questions grew and grew till at the end of ten days that she had

not seen Lydgate, it grew into terror at the blank thatof that ready, fatal sponge which so cheaply

wipes out the hopes of mortals The world would have a new dreariness

for her, as a wilderness that a arden She felt that she was beginning to know

the pang of disappointed love, and that no other htful aerial building as she had been enjoying

for the last six months Poor Rosamond lost her appetite and felt as

forlorn as Ariadne--as a chare Ariadne left behind with all

her boxes full of costumes and no hope of a coach

There are many wonderful mixtures in the world which are all alike

called love, and claiy for everything (in literature and the dra any desperate act: she plaited her fair

hair as beautifully as usual, and kept herself proudly calm Her most

cheerful supposition was that her aunt Bulstrode had interfered in so was better than a

spontaneous indifference in hiines ten days too