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- which clung to the fairylike member by means of a diamond clasp.
As I entered the apartment, her eyes were downcast, and the expression
of her face was mournfully interesting; she had apparently been lost in
some melancholy revery. Upon my entrance, however, her countenance
brightened, as with a queenly wave of the hand she motioned my
conductress from the room, and left me standing, mute, admiring, and
bewildered in her presence.
For a moment my brain spun round, and I had not at command a single one
of my faculties. Recovering my self-possession, however, and with that,
my good breeding, I advanced _en cavalier_, and gracefully sinking on
one knee, I bowed my head and exclaimed, ‘Here do I prostrate myself,
thou sweet Divinity, and kneel at the shrine of thy beauty.’
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