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But is not his pleasure far greater , who stands a looker on at this motioned beauty ? Whose watching eye follows the silken feet , as they noiseless bound from the floor , which they seem to kiss , coquetting with their own delight ; or fancy them two tiny , fairy skiffs , sporting on the gently undulated lake , and wooing the perfumed breeze , which sings through their gossamer tackle , and fans their
sails of film . Or like the serene and soundless flight of birds , with winnowy wing , fluttering a moment in rapture , and then skimming the air with unruffled pinions . It is thence the spiritualized grace of motion is made visible , and throws the gazer into an entrancing dream , —and flashes before the eyes of his imagination many a gleam of dazzling brightness , which is invisible to the dancers themselvesthey are but dancers .
Alone and apart Lucio stood , and saw in all nothing but a whirling mass of vapours . The clouds exhaling from the benumbed sadness of his heart threw their thick mists before his eyes . The Count Jeldaz , with winning courtesy , participated every where , and with all , the passing jocundity , seemingly forgetful of his silent bride , but occasionally casting a cheerful and confiding glance towards the alcove in which she sat , while Lucio leaned against the pilasters which
ornamented its outline . . Lucio saw it not , but other eyes frequently accompanied the busy and inquisitive direction of Signior Goznia ' s looks , which were ever and anon sent towards Melaza and Lucio , at each turn in the dance ' s figure . The revelry was at the highest , when by that clear communion of two souls which reciprocate their wordless sympathies , Lucio and Malaza , unobserved as they supposed , quitted the hall and descended to the gardens , then walked to the
ront ; there , in the clear cloudless blue of the night they stoodsilent—gazing on their reflected images in the dark and shining mirror beneath them . The faint and sorrowful smile changed to a quiver of the lip , as he bent his eyes on the shadowy form which his arm encircled , and he kissed the thin and pale fingers as they drooped over his shoulder against which her face was leaning ; they seemed touched with only the last lingering flutter of existence .
'Ah ! if , when thou art gone thyself , Melaza , that precious image would here remain ; if that liquid glass would still reflect , as it does now , thy angel form , my days , and they will be but few , would pass even like this hour , in raptured sadness ; until this life dissolved in thought , should , as a bead of dew , exhale and upwards soar , still clinging to , and embracing the memory of thee , up to a dwelling with some bright , distant star , that holds its course in yonder blue ethereal
sea . Till then , this spot should be my place of rest . Here I would sit , and hope for heaven , and think not that thou awhile from me art riven . I would talk with it , as it were with thee , with thy dear self ; and as I breathed into thy listening ear , the voice of fancy would answer me in thy own soft silvery tones , with none to disturb , none , oh ! none other to partake the converse ; and I should feel thy breath still gently fan my face , then should 1 dream myself to eternal repose , and with the blessed be most blest . ' The parting lips of Melaza gave passage to the thin and trembling sigh that fluttered from her bosom : but she spoke not ; not a sound
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Autobiography ofPeh Verjuice . 637
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1833, page 637, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2622/page/53/
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