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"Doubt you if, in some such moment / As she fixed me, she felt clearly / Ages past the soul existed, / Here an age 'tis resting merely, / And hence fleets again for ages, / While the true end, sole and single, / It stops here for, is this love-way, / With some other soul to mingle? / "Else it loses what it lived for, / And eternally must lose it; / Better ends may be in prospect, / Deeper blisses (if you choose it); / But this life's end and this love-bliss / Have been lost here; doubt you whether / This she felt, as looking at me, / Mine and her souls rushed together? " / -- ROBERT BROWNING.
Melicent only came down to Clunbury for one day the following week; and Mr. Helston was with her. The week after, she came for two days, and brought Brenda.