43/69 I'm too absurd to be so upset"-- Mr.Longdon smiled through his tears--"but if you had known Lady Julia you'd understand. It's SHE again, as I first knew her, to the life; and not only in feature, in stature, in colour, in movement, but in every bodily mark and sign, in every look of the eyes above all--oh to a degree!--in the sound, in the charm of the voice." He spoke low and confidentially, but with an intensity that now relieved him--he was as restless as with a discovery. He moved about as with a sacred awe--he might a few steps away have been in the very presence. There isn't a touch of her mother. |