The Children's portion : entertaining, instructive and elevating stories (1895)
Shoppell, R. W. (Robert W.) · New York : The Christian Herald · leaf 251
, that if so, it wasa proof of the sculptors art, who represen-ted the queen as she would appear after thesixteen years which had passed. She wouldhave draw^n the curtain again, but Leontes 256 The Childrens Portio7i. begged her to wait a while, and again heappealed to those about him to say if it… … When the curtain was drawn back, his sorrow wasstirred afresh. were the kings pleasure; and as some softmusic was heard, the figure stirred. Ah!it was no sculptured marble, but Hermione,living and breathing, who hung upon herhusband and her long-lost child! It is needless to tell that Paulinas…
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