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Scarcely had the half-

into thehim as with a flash of amazement that

fixed hilided suddenly

through the door into the reflected roo step, the graceful form of a woman, clothed all

in white Her back only was visible as she walked slowly up to the

couch in the further end of the roo towards him a face of unutterable loveliness, in which

suffering, and dislike, and a sense of coled

with the beauty He stood without the power of motion for some moments,

with his eyes irrecoverably fixed upon her; and even after he was

conscious of the ability to e to

turn and look on her, face to face, in the veritable chath, with a sudden effort, in which the exercise of the

as so pure, that it seemed involuntary, he turned his face to the

couch It was vacant In bewilderain to the mirror: there, on the reflected couch, lay the exquisite

lady-fore tears were just

welling fro lids; still as death, save for the

convulsive motion of her bosom

Cosmo himself could not have described what he felt His emotions were

of a kind that destroyed consciousness, and could never be clearly

recalled He could not help standing yet by the h he was painfully aware of his rudeness,

and feared every ard But he was, ere long, a little relieved; for, after a while, her

eyelids slowly rose, and her eyes remained uncovered, but unean to wander about the roo to make some acquaintance with her environment, they

were never directed towards hi but as in the

mirror could affect her vision; and, therefore, if she saw him at all,

it could only be his back, which, of necessity, was turned towards her

in the glass The two figures in the mirror could not meet face to face,