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recess , in which the Lady Melaza stood , grasping fitfully With the white lingers of her left hand , a veil , which , suspended from her head , fell down on that arm . l Your bride , my Lord / were the only halfchoked words uttered by Count Oschiaro , as the tears fast rolled down his cheeks . Jeldaz took the disengaged and passive hand in his , and suddenly dropt it , starting as if the touch had chilled him ; but he resumed his complacency , and smiling again , lifted it , and ranged his eyes over her form , and surveyed her from head to foot with cold surprise . After a few ceremonial words to her , which met no other reply than a faintly hoarse ' My Lord / he turned , and bowed with his welL chiselled smile , as he glanced on every side , ' and along the gay assembly ; and speaking to the tear-eyed Count Oschiaro , said , ' She is fair . ' * As the enshrined at Florence , Count Jeldaz / ' And quite as cold , ' he replied ; 'I thought I touched the marble when I raised that hand , save that the stone is not so dewy dead . ' 4 Her maiden timidity / ' Belike , my Lord , —much bliss to me this clayey figure promises , ' muttered Count Jeldaz . ' But you have a son , my Lord ; shall I not hail him as my friend ? is he not here among the guests V Sweeping the assembly with his eye , as if in search of him ; but glancing more keenly into Melaza ' s face , as if to detect the expression which this allusion to Lucio occasioned ; but no change could be marked ; not a quiver of the lips , nor a flicker of the eyelids , gave token that the words were heard by her . * My son has not , of late , mingled in our festivities ; his pleasures are more with his own thoughts ; but he will join us soon , I doubt not . The sickness of a friend in the city called him from us / ' It must be a firm friendship , indeed , my Lord , that allures a youth from the presence and smiles of such an a ? semblage of beauty / ' I know not that he appreciates these assemblages as we do , Count Jeldaz , —we—ay , we 1 say , for I have still youth ' s fervour of admiration for them ; he dwells , sis I before told you , within himself . The silken chains have failed to fetter him / Nor was it till evening , amid the glittering- of the crystal lamps , that he was seen among the revellers , where so many faces , rich and joyous , looking all as if no sorrow dwelt on earth ; and forms , in order marshalled , stood , waiting
* Impatient for the music ' s clang , — It struck !—on a hundred feet upsprang Elastic forms , in buoyant motion , Like billows bright on the sunny ocean . They waved , and swept , and wheel * d , and curled , Like beings of some other world ; Or scattered iris tints at play ; Or things that floated lite away To sounds that bade the corporate frame Be evanescent , and dissolve Into ethereal , hurt less flame ; Yet warm with life , ; and each revolve Of figure , showed the dancing eye , — The glowing cheek , —the bosom lair , Which ne ' er had heaved with sorrow ' s sigh , — The brow that ne'er was pressed by care . ' * . i
* I have put quotation marks to these lines , lest I should l > e charged with plagiary ; they are , nevertheless , my own property ; though they may have been seen in type by some half dozen people in the wide world ; but I am quite safe : not one of that half dozen remembers where .
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636 Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1833, page 636, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2622/page/52/
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