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He thought of Laura! of his own Acme! With swimming glance, he looked round the chamber. It was almost without furniture, and without ornament. In a niche, and within a glass case, was placed the skeleton of a dumb favourite of Petrarch's. Suddenly George Delme felt a faintness stealing over him: and he turned to bare his forehead, to catch the slight breeze from below redolent of sweets.
Delme had long designed some internal improvements in the mansion; and as workmen would necessarily be employed, had proposed that our family party should pass a few weeks at a watering place, until these were completed. They were not without hopes, that George might there join them, as Emily had written to Malta, pressing him to be present at her wedding.
He has adopted it with so much earnestness that there is no room for reproof or hope of correction. I must begin my letter of to-day by contradicting the piece of intelligence with which I concluded my last. I went to Lady Betty's yesterday after dinner, who was gone with Mr. Delme to Bray, till Wednesday.
"Resign or exchange with credit to yourself!" sullenly observed a stout tall officer of about fifty, whose spleen might well be accounted for in his rank of "Ensign" Delme. "Methinks there can be little credit in exchanging or resigning, when one's companions are left behind, and in a post of danger."
The fading colours on the surcoat of the recumbent knight, still faintly showed the lilies and leopards of England; and Sir Henry himself was willing to believe, that the jagged marks made in that banner by the tooth of Time, were but cuts, left by the sword of the Herald, as at the royal Henry's command, he curtailed the pennon of the knight; and again restored it to Sir Reginald Delme a banner.
Delme extended his wanderings to the rarely visited "many isles," which stud the vast Pacific, and found that there too were fruitful and smiling regions.
Occasionally, a gig, pulled by man of war's men, might be seen making towards the town, with one or more officers astern, whose glittering epaulettes announced them as either diners out, or amateurs of the opera. The scene to Delme was entirely novel; although it had previously been his lot to scan more than one foreign country.
With the exception of one massive door-way, whose circular arch and peculiar zig-zag ornament bespoke it co-eval with, or of an earlier date than, the reign of Stephen and said to have belonged to a ruin apart from the chapel, whose foundations an antiquary could hardly trace Delme chapel might be considered a well preserved specimen of the florid Gothic, of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
At twilight's hour might she be seen, unscared by the truant's stone, repairing to the placid pool skimming over its glassy surface, in rapid circle and with humid wing and returning in triumph, bearing wherewithal to build her nest. Summer too went by; and as the leaves of Autumn rustled at his feet, Delme started, as he felt that the sting and poignancy of his grief was gone.
"And salvation's helm the pilgrim wears, Or vain were all other dress; And the shield of faith the pilgrim bears, With the breastplate of righteousness. "At length his tears all wiped away; He enters the City of Light; And how gladly he changes his gown of grey, For Zion's robe of white." It was on the 22nd of October, 1836, that an emissary from his sister, sought Sir Henry Delme.
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