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Yates, when the door opened and Lady Hope stood upon the threshold. She had become restless beyond self-control in her own room, and came back to the death-chamber, wondering what detained her husband there so long.
Have you wanted me?" Julius asked. Those quiet hours spent in the humble death-chamber suddenly appeared to him as an act of possible selfishness. "Oh no!" she answered bitterly. "Why should I want you? Have I not sent Roger and Mary away? Am I not secretly glad dear Marie de Mirancourt is just sufficiently poorly to remain in her room?
He knew that the will would most probably be found there, but was anxious to have the priest complete the consecration of his mistress undisturbed. As soon as all was still in the death-chamber, he asked the gentlemen to follow him. The lofty apartment into which he led them, was filled with the odor of incense.
Jaffery and I followed her into the death-chamber, leaving the doctor with Barbara. And then we stood and looked at all that was left of Adrian. But how did it happen? It was not till long afterwards that I really knew more than the scared maid-servant and the porter of the mansions then told us. But that little more I will set down here.
In highly figurative language, this stanza pictures the passage of Urania from 'her secret paradise' to the death-chamber of Adonais in Rome, as if the spiritual essence and external form of the goddess were wounded by the uncongenial atmosphere of human malice and detraction through which she has to pass.
The good old minister came freshly from the death-chamber of Governor Winthrop, who had passed from earth to heaven within that very hour.
I wait to see whether iniquity is to succeed; or whether, at the last moment, the hand of Providence will be outstretched to confound the guilty. My faith is strong in Providence, Mr. Eversleigh. And now stand aside, if you please, and let me look upon the face of my husband." This time, Reginald Eversleigh did not venture to dispute the widow's right to enter the death-chamber.
I saw again the ghastly scene in the death-chamber the deformed creature crying over the corpse in the stillness of the first dark hours of the new day. The horrible picture took a strange hold on my mind. I arose, and walked up and down, and tried to turn my thoughts some other way. It was not to be done: the scene was too familiar to me to be easily dismissed.
The window of his death-chamber was turned towards the west, and the sun shone upon his face in its setting, and rested there, as he expired. Delivered November 18, 1853. The subject on which I would desire to engage your attention this evening, is the nature and probable result of a certain schism which took place a few years ago among our British artists.
Dame Gourlay perceived that Lucy shuddered at her external appearance, which we have already described when we found her in the death-chamber of blind Alice; and while internally she hated the poor girl for the involuntary horror with which she saw she was regarded, she commenced her operations by endeavouring to efface or overcome those prejudices which, in her heart, she resented as mortal offences.
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