The other remained standing in his former
posture.
The divine melody ceased; the elder stranger rose; the words
were on the lips of Egremont, that would have asked some
explanation of this sweet and holy mystery, when in the vacant
and star-lit arch on which his glance was fixed, he beheld a
female form. She was apparently in the habit of a Religious,
yet scarcely could be a nun, for her veil, if indeed it were a
veil, had fallen on her shoulders, and revealed her thick
tresses of long fair hair. The blush of deep emotion lingered
on a countenance, which though extremely young, was impressed
with a character of almost divine majesty; while her dark eyes
and long dark lashes, contrasting with the brightness of her
complexion and the luxuriance of her radiant locks, combined
to produce a beauty as rare as it is choice; and so strange,
that Egremont might for a moment have been pardoned for
believing her a seraph, that had lighted on this sphere, or
the fair phantom of some saint haunting the sacred ruins of
her desecrated fane.
Book 2 Chapter 6
"I understand, then," said Lord Marney to his brother, as on
the evening of the same day they were seated together in the
drawing-room, in close converse "I understand then, that you
have in fact paid nothing, and that my mother will give you a
thousand pounds.
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