Page 48 (1/2)

The divinity for whose sake this temple had been decorated ell

worthy the cost and pains which had been bestowed She was seated in the

withdrawing-roo with the pleased eye

of natural and innocent vanity the splendour which had been so suddenly

created, as it were, in her honour For, as her own residence at Cumnor

Place formed the cause of thethese aparted that, until she

took possession of the as

going forward in that part of the ancient building, or of exposing

herself to be seen by the worked in the decorations She had

been, therefore, introduced on that evening to a part of the mansion

which she had never yet seen, so different from all the rest that it

appeared, in comparison, like an enchanted palace And when she first

examined and occupied these splendid rooms, it ith the wild and

unrestrained joy of a rustic beauty who finds herself suddenly invested

with a splendour which her ined,

and at the sa of an affectionate heart,

which knows that all the enchantician Love