Name: Diogenes of London (collection) — My Lady
Author: H. B. Marriott Watson

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H. B. Marriott Watson, Diogenes of London (collection… (1893)

“ I have put about to describe her, but there are no terms for her; her loveliness is new to the world with herself. Her face is so delicately beautiful that I cannot separate its characters; in itself it is an ultimate thought. Yet from each one of her features I should know her face, they are so rare to me. When I look at her I am conscious mainly of her eyes, though should I meet them not the rest fills me so divinely that when at last she glances to me my delight flows over in esteem. ”

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H. B. Marriott Watson, Diogenes of London (collection… (1893)

“ I bear about with me the marks of my passion, so that to my friends I am become as a fool. I am grown so inseparable from her in my thoughts that I am become her shadow; to recall her image is to see my own stark face. I am fallen into a byword to myself because of her: she stands between me and the immediate concerns of life. Time has laid me under heavy bonds, who was from the first a captive. I have no thought or feeling through the day that does not turn to her. ”

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“ Each day an added impulse makes my life more ethereal; each day my eyes are more familiar with her beauty, my lips with her name. But each day, too, I have the burden of a new fear, that she must meet the chances of the world. ”

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“ When her skirts have swept by me I have been minded to take them to me, but have shrunk back lest the perfidy of my kiss should taint her. I fear to pluck my rose out of the morning lest perchance it bloom sweeter on the stem. ”

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“ Observing the conduct of others, I wonder sometimes if aught is wrong with my vision that I see her so lustrous when they can be placid. I know not why she should be different from her fellows. Of her dress I can tell but little, for its contemplation would lead me from her face. Yet they say, it meetly clothes a gracious body. If it is meet for hers, there is no higher praise for it. ”

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H. B. Marriott Watson, Diogenes of London (collection… (1893)

“ There is a word I dare not whisper to myself; it is a spectre stalking through my heart. There are such fears abroad in my life that I am a quaking coward. I ponder daily upon mortality. Will not God who has given such goodliness preserve it? ”

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H. B. Marriott Watson, Diogenes of London (collection… (1893)

“ In my thought I watch her by the hours in her daily progress, hanging upon her changes with tremulous delight, till I have forgot her bodily absence. I have striven at times to conceive a being of a finer mould, but my imagination has foundered in the venture. ”

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H. B. Marriott Watson, Diogenes of London (collection… (1893)

“ MY LADY HER complexion is so exquisitely fair that there is no comparison for it; to look for one would be to dis- honour her loveliness. It is strange that though she is so dear to me I cannot describe her with precision. ”

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