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Updated: May 7, 2025
"Thunder-struck with this unexpected blow, and writhing under a bitter sense of humiliation, I affected an air of contemptuous indifference and turned to depart; when a light grasp was laid upon my arm, and I encountered the dark soul-lighted eyes of Margaret Moncton, moistened with tears, and fixed upon me with a gaze of mournful interest, "'Stay, Mr. Mornington.
The features were cast in the same mould the brow, perhaps, was a little less lofty the smile a little less cold; but the eyes, the beautiful, lustrous, soul-lighted eyes were the same the very same!
When she was a school-girl and he a student, she had secretly sketched his likeness the only one extant of his ugly, yet soul-lighted face and had prefixed thereto his name, with the magic letters, "P. B. A." She felt sure the prophecy would be fulfilled one day, and then she would show him the portrait, and let her humble, sisterly love go down to posterity on the hem of his robe of fame.
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