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386 THE PORTRAIT.
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LXL-THE POBTBAIT.
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?- ¦ CHAPTER IX.
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Sorrente, Doux Rivage, Espoir Des Matelo...
JL'eclat d'une couronne Tenterait inoins mes vceux
Qu ' un bouton d'anemone Cache dans ses cheveux . Tons ces niets qu ' on arrange
Pour la table des rols Valent-ils une orange Que partagent ses doigts ?
_Kien ne me fait en vie ; . Tout rejouit mon coeur ,
Et j ' ai fait de la vie Un long jour de bonheur .
_eTamais je ne prolonge lies lieures dn somnieil ;
II _h'est point d'heureux songe Qui vaille mon reveiL Je prie , et Dieu m ' envoie
Ce qne j ' ai desire , : Et c'est encore de joie Qu ' un senl jour j'ai pleure .
Ah ! si Dieu , que j'adore , An ciel ni ' a destine ,
J'y veux choisir encore Tout ce qu'il ni ' a donne .
Madame _Emile de Girardin .
386 The Portrait.
386 THE PORTRAIT .
Lxl-The Pobtbait.
LXL-THE POBTBAIT . ( Concluded from page 327 . )
?- ¦ Chapter Ix.
? - ¦ CHAPTER IX .
_Dtjbing tliat pause _^ in wliich tlie unquiet pulsation of my heart made itself felt to painI heard Cleveland say in a low voice > yet
, clearly and distinctly , " This no one can wrest from me ; this at least I may call mine . " And he continued to gaze on the dimly seen
picture , as if rapt in thought . Softly as I had approached him , still more soundless was my tread as I glided into the back
drawingroom . The words spoken were not meant to be heard , and of all listeners I should have been the last . They were spoken not for
me to hear , _biit addressed to the mute and deaf Properzia who stood _, within the gilded frame . Whylike hercould I not be 2 Dassive _r
pulseless , motionless ? Better to , be that , cherished picture , looked _,
at lovingly by those earnest eyes , than to live aad breathe and be *
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/26/
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