Ellen Percy; or, The Memoirs of an Actress — page 86: what you’re looking at

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J ELLEN PERCY; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF AN ACTRESS. 73 se Hilf at the minister. “No language can describe the sensation which took possession of me as my first glance was flung upon that countenance !—words have no faculty to depict the mingled astonishment and dismay with which I was smitten as an idea our turns to Mr. Croft; and then the ceremony eommenced. I advanced mechanically behind Juliet towards the table: I was labouring under a species of stupefaction which to me was like the paralyzation of every sense—but which to those ~ struck me! Could it be possible that the face of about me might only have seemed a natural agi‘a- this clergyman was far from unfamiliar to me P— | tion, consistent with the circumstances, and chiefly had I indeed seen it before—and in such circum- arising from the prospect of separation from a stances too, the remembrance of which almost | friend whom I loved as a sister. made me shriek out? Or was it a delusion on my The ceremony was already progressing before part? A dimness came over my vision—the lights the dimness passed sufficiently away from my appearcd to pale into a mist—my thoughts fell into vision, and before my thoughts settled so far down confusion—and in respect to those present I could into collectedness as to enable me take another scarcely distinguish them from each other, with | look at the surpliced minister. I now gazed upon the exception of one—that individual in the white him intently; and the conviction grew gradually surplice, with the scarf flowing in front and the | stronger in my mind that I knew his countenance black and red hood at his back ! full well. It was changed since I had first seen it {remember that Lord Frederick Ravenscliffe nearly eight years back: the hair that was then introduced Mrs. Norman, Juliet, and myself in | dark, had becowe grizzled—the biavk eyes thas Ko. 10.—Enien Porcy. --—— oe oe a \ CONNIE ACO cS Com