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except he turned and looked at her, present in his room; and, as she was

not there, he concluded that if he were to turn towards the part in his

roo to that in which she lay, his reflection would either

be invisible to her altogether, or at least it aze vacantly towards her, and noof the eyes would produce

the impression of spiritual proximity By-and-by her eyes fell upon the

skeleton, and he saw her shudder and close thenance continued evident on her countenance

Cos at once, but he feared to

discompose her yet more by the assertion of his presence which the act

would involve So he stood and watched her The eyelids yet shrouded

the eyes, as a costly case the jeithin; the troubled expression

gradually faded fro only a faint sorrow

behind; the features settled into an unchanging expression of rest; and

by these signs, and the slow regular , Cosaze on her without eure, dressed in the simplest robe of white, orthy of

her face; and so harmonious, that either the delicately er of the equally delicate hand, was an index to the whole As

she lay, her whole forazed till he eary, and at last seated himself near the new-found

shrine, and mechanically took up a book, like one atches by a

sick-bed But his eyes gathered no thoughts froe before him

His intellect had been stunned by the bold contradiction, to its face,

of all its experience, and now lay passive, without assertion, or

speculation, or even conscious astonishination sent

one wild dreah his soul

How long he sat he knew not; but at length he roused hi in every portion of his fraone The mirror reflected faithfully what his rooolden setting whence the

central jewel has been stolen away--like a night-sky without the glory

of its stars She had carried with her all the strangeness of the

reflected room It had sunk to the level of the one without