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dependants and friends were gathered around her Elizabeth saw not the

limited number of this band; she enjoyed herself with those ere

there, and laotten her

She was a had

come, the household and the less trusted and favored of her adherents

had withdrawn, and only the most intimate, most favored friends now

re that they now recurred to the enjoy art, uitar

Elizabeth listened, listlessly reclining upon her divan Behind her

stood two gentleing of the youth

Elizabeth was a bloo

to the eye in the crimson-velvet robe, embroidered with silver, that

enveloped her full, voluptuous for the delicate whiteness of her skin in beautiful contrast

with the purple of her robe Perhaps a severe judgeto the rules of the antique, but

it was one of those faces that please and bewitch the other sex; one of

those beauties whose charularity of

the lines as in the ever-varying expression There was so , supercilious, , in

the face of this wo

were they when she s

were they when shaded by a soft veil of e cheeks, that heaving bosoayety--for Elizabeth had not yet reached her

thirtieth year--ould she not have animated, excited, transported?