Identifier: l00ucilelyttrich (find matches)
Title: Lucile
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of, 1831-1891
Subjects: Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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* Does it move as of old .-* Psha ! Sit, Sister! I wait Your answer, my time halts but hurriedly. State The cause why you seek me. The cause t ay, the cause !She vaguely repeated. Then, after a pause,—As one who, awaked una^vares, would put backThe sleep that for ever returns in the trackOf dreams which, though scared and dispersed, not the lessSettle back to faint eyelids that yield neath their stress^Like doves to a penthouse,—a movement she made,
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CANTO VI. LUCILE. 239 Less toward him than away from herself; droopd her headAnd folded her hands on her bosom : long, spare,Fatigued, mournful hands ! Not a stream of stray hairEscaped the pale bands ; scarce more pale than the faceWhich they bound and lockd up in a rigid white case.She fixd her eyes on him. There crept a vague aweOer his sense, such as ghosts cast. Eugene de Luvois, The cause which recalls me again to your side, Is a promise that rests unfulfilld, she replied. I come to fulfil it. He sprang from the placeWhere he sat, pressd his hand, as in doubt, oer his face ;And, cautiously feeling each step oer the groundThat he trod on (as one who walks fearing the soundOf his footstep may startle and scare out of sightSome strange sleeping creature on which he would lightUnawares), crept towards her ; one heavy hand laidOn her shoulder in silence ; bent oer her his head,Searchd her face with a long look of troubled appealAgainst doubt; staggerd backward, and murmurd . . . . Lu

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