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"Heaven's own screen Hides her soul's purest depth and loveliest glow; Closely withheld, as all things most unseen -- The wave-bowered pearl, the heart-shaped seal of green That flecks the snowdrop underneath the snow. " ROSSETTI.
The morrow brought its own fresh ordeal to the new Lady Sinclair; added its own quota to the discovery, each day enforced more clearly, that married life with Nevil, the rising artist, was one thing, and married life with Sir Nevil Sinclair of Bramleigh Beeches, in the stronghold of his fathers, was very much another.