It presented an harmonious variety of solemn colours, united by the exquisite artifice of Nature to a grand, yet simple disposition of form.

It was a picture executed by the hand of Rembrandt, and imagined by the mind of Raphael.
Starting abruptly from her long, earnest examination of the fugitive, Goisvintha proceeded to employ herself in restoring animation to her insensible charge.

While thus occupied, she preserved unbroken silence.

A breathless expectation, that absorbed all her senses in one direction, seemed to have possessed itself of her heart.

She laboured at her task with the mechanical, unwavering energy of those, whose attention is occupied by their thoughts rather than their actions.
Slowly and unwillingly the first faint flush of returning animation dawned, in the tenderest delicacy of hue, upon the girl's colourless cheek.