Identifier: luttrellarran00leve (find matches)
Title: Luttrell of Arran
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Lever, Charles James, 1806-1872 Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882, ill
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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in a Memliug, but stillimmeasurably inferior to this. What would he not have given thatDanneker or Canova could have seen her thus and modelled her!Greek art itself had nothing finer in form, and as to her face, shewas infinitely more beautiful than anything the antique presented.How was it that in all his hitherto admiration of her he had neverbefore recognised such surpassing beauty ? Was it that excitementdisturbed the calm loveliness, and gave too much mobiUty to thesetraits ? or was it that, in her versatile, capricious way, slie had nevergiven Inm time for admiration ? As for the gems, he did not remarktlicm for a long while, and when he did, it was to feel how muchmore she adorned them than they contributed to her loveliness. 1 must bring Ada here, muttered he to himself. How shewill be charmed with the picture. He turned to steal away, andthen, with the thoughtful instinct of his order, he moved noiselesslyacross the room, and turned the looking-glass to the wall. It was <i
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