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While the bright-eyed Liehbur thus spoke, the countess examined through her veil the fair face before her, comparing it with that description which Godolphin had given her of the sculptor's daughter, and her suspicion acquired new strength. "I seek not that which you allude to," said Constance; "but of the future, although without any definite object, I would indeed like to question you.
"Alas!" answered Constance, "life betrays few of its past signs by outward token. If you have no wiser art than that drawn from the lines and features of our countenances, I shall still remain what I am now an unbeliever in your powers." "The brow, and the lip, and the eye, and the expression of each and all," answered Liehbur, "are not the lying index you suppose them."
"Away with this talk to me; or, if you would convince me, raise at once the spectre I desire to see!" "And dost thou think, vain man," replied Liehbur, haughtily, "that I pretend to the power thou speakest of? I can bring the dead before thee, but thou thyself must act upon thyself." "Mummery! What would you drive at?"
In Leicester Square there is a dim old house, which I have but this instant visited, in order to bring back more vividly to my recollection the wild and unhappy being who, for some short time, inhabited its old-fashioned and gloomy chambers. In that house, at the time I now speak of, lodged the mysterious Liehbur.
While the bright-eyed Liehbur thus spoke, the countess examined through her veil the fair face before her, comparing it with that description which Godolphin had given her of the sculptor's daughter, and her suspicion acquired new strength. "I seek not that which you allude to," said Constance; "but of the future, although without any definite object, I would indeed like to question you.
The door opened, and a black girl of about ten years old, in the costume of her Moorish tribe, announced the arrival of a new visitor. The countenance of Madame Liehbur changed at once into an expression of cold and settled calmness; she ordered the visitor to be admitted; and presently, Stainforth Radclyffe entered the room.
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