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She still took note that, when the living smile Died from his lips, across him came a cloud Of melancholy severe; from which again, Whenever in her hovering to and fro, The lily-maid had striven to make him cheer, There brake a sudden beaming tenderness. -TENNYSON (_Elaine_).
"And do you not wish to know," asked Ellinor, "what has brought me with the dawn to these gardens?"