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The livelong day Lady Standish had not beheld the light of her lord's countenance.
Upon their last meeting, his behaviour to the Bishop having roused in her gentle bosom a feeling as nearly akin to resentment as it was capable of harbouring, she would not be (she had resolved) the one to seek him first. She had, therefore, passed the day in her own apartment in writing to her mother, and in practising her last song to the harp -- a piece of audacity and independence which she expected would have goaded Sir Jasper into an instant interview with herself.