Never once, since the hour of his departure from home, had he, in his waking moments, permitted that name to find a place upon his lips, and now syllabled into sound by them in his unconscious dreams, it fell with a stunning influence upon an auditor, whose heart grew colder in due proportion with the unconscious but warm tenderness of epithet with which his tongue coupled its utterance.
The now completely unhappy Lucy stood sad and statue-like.

She heard enough to teach her the true character of her own feelings for one, whose articulated dreams had revealed the secret of his passion for another; and almost forgetting for a while the office upon which she had come, she continued to give ear to those sounds which brought to her heart only additional misery.
How long Ralph, in his mental wanderings, would have gone on, as we have seen, incoherently developing his heart's history, may not be said.
Gathering courage at last, with a noble energy, the maiden proceeded to her proposed duty, and his slumbers were broken.

With a half-awakened consciousness he raised himself partially up in his couch, and sought to listen.

He was not deceived; a whispered sentence came to his ears, addressed to himself, and succeeded by a pause of several moments' continuance.

Again his name was uttered.