The Argosy — page 51: what you’re looking at

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Princess Eleanor. 41 always get up with the hope that this shadow will pass from my life, and that happy days may still be in store for me. Before Ernest leaves, cousin Dorothy intends asking him if we may have Herr Impach (“her Raphael,” she calls him) here to dinner sometimes. Should Ernest consent, I may reckon upon the young man’s spending his whole life with us, for it is one of Dorothy’s promi- nent qualities to abuse of a given permission. Not even his natural obstinacy will enable him to refuse my cousin’s importunate invita- tions. Tam not happy, Amy, very far indeed from happy! May better days follow these dreary ones ! Send a word of consolation to Your ELEANor. XVII. Geoffrey! Allis over! The fathomless deep, towards which I was blindly hurrying, has opened, and engulfed me. Dearly must I pay for the happiness I enjoyed but so short a time— with more than life, Geoffrey—for it has cost me zame and honour / I never cease to repeat to myself how guilty I have been; and yet I scarcely find strength enough to support my misery. Untrue to all the principles of my life, I disgraced myself by becoming the humble servant of a lady of rank, who can repay the sacrifice of my life and honour by nothing more than a kind look. And besides! have I not been a traitor to friendship, to the true brother that you are, all through this fatal love of mine ; for the thought of going the short way from Florence to Rome, for the sake of seeing you, never entered my mind. I shuddered at the mere idea of leaving Eleanor for a day. Surely such madness could lead to no good! This chastisement I had, however, not expected. Listen to the means by which your friend thought to obtain mercy, and was condemned to destruction. We had scarcely returned home safely, when Prince Ernest once more left, this time alone, while he promised to return in a _fort- night. To old cousin Dorothy I owed a daily invitation to dinner. The drawing-lessons were quietly taking their course, and Prince Ernest had requested me to copy a Titian in his gallery, the original of which he desired to have in his study as soon as the gap could be filled by a copy. I asked his permission to copy it twice, as I wished it for myself also. “The whole gallery is of course at your disposal !” was his amiable answer. Iwas working hard when Werdan one day begged me to take a ride in the Park with him, as he had something important to communicate to me. He then asked me to make a copy of Rembrandt’s’ Old’ Woran, comicbooks.com