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-- Dwelt on my heaven a face Most starry-fair, but kindled from within As 'twere with dawn! -TENNYSON (_The Lover's Tale_).
On the new-comer's entrance Ellinor looked up. The smile was arrested on her lips and her eyes grew grave with wonder: there was something curiously unsubstantial, something almost fantastic in the man that stood thus, framed in the gaping darkness of the doorway.