The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 307: what you’re looking at

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THE BARONET AND ROYAL MAIDEN) 273 tion by the frank, ingenuous, and friendly manner in which you have now visited me. Henceforth this room will appear to me under another and far more cheerful aspect; and when seated alone herein, contemplating your image, I shall retain the delightful remembrance that you yourself have lightened the darkness of my abode.”’ ‘“‘ You are addressing me with an enthusiasm which carries an ineffable pleasure into my soul,” said the Princess Amelia; ‘“‘ for I perceive that I have been the means of restoring you at least to some degree of happiness.’’ ‘‘ Dear lady, when I am in your presence,’’ returned the baronet, gazing with admiration upon her, “ the past, frightful as it is, appears only as a dream, or as something which is so far off as scarcely to leave a black shade in the memory.” ‘‘ And when I am not with you, the gloomy cloud comes back to sit upon your soul and brood the darkest thoughts? ” said the princess, her voice assuming a tenderness which stole like Elysian music upon the senses of the baronet and carried a soft ecstasy of feeling in unto the very depths of his soul. ‘“‘ Alas! when I am alone,” he observed, after a pause of nearly a minute and now heaving a profound sigh, “‘ I have only your image to solace me. But then I ponder upon every word that has fallen from your lips during the hours we have been together, and I repeat a thousand times to myself the solacing assurance which you always give me at parting, that we shall meet again on the morrow. And we do meet thus, day after day, and my existence appears to have undergone so complete a change and have entered upon a phase so thoroughly new that there are moments when I cease even to regret the prosperity of earlier years.”’ “ And in order to keep you in this happy frame of mind,” said the royal maiden, lowering her voice to a whisper that was only just audible, as she bent down her head to conceal her blushes, ‘‘ and likewise to prevent the return of the gloomy mood, I should never leave you.” ‘Great Heaven! what words are these which you have uttered?’ ejaculated the baronet, starting in mingled amazement and alarm at the sudden intuition which sprang up in his mind, or rather at the light which was thrown, all in a moment, upon the state of his own feelings. | 6)(0)(0) (C(O)