Volume the Third: Diplomatic DisplayLondonBritish Library, Add. MS. 65381
1Anna Lefroy On re entering his
circular domain, his round- Robin of perpetual
peace; where enjoymenthad no End,
and calamity no commencement, his spirits became
wonderfully composed, and a delicious calm extended itself
through everynerve –With his pocket hankerchief (once hemmed by
the genius of the too susceptible Rosa) he wiped the morbid
moisture fromhis brow; – then flew to the
Boudoir of hisMaria –And, did she not fly to meet her Frederick? Did she not
dart from the couch on which she had so gracefully
reclined, and, bounding like an agileFawn over the intervening Foot stool, pre=cipitate herself into his arms? Does she not, though
fainting between every syllable, breathe forth as it were
by installments her Frederick's adored name? Who isthere of perception so obtuse as not to realize the touching scene?
Who, of ear so dull as not to catch the soft murmur of
Footnotes
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- Continuation of 'Evelyn' in the hand of Anna Lefroy, c.1814-15.Back to context...
