A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.
'0 I
self,
romance my-
yes; though I cannot
am
able to remind
29
him
of those
who
Elfride intended to hurl these words
can.'
sarcastically at her invisible
enemy, but as
she had no more satirical power than a
wood-pigeon, they merely
murmur from
lips
Certainly:
book
is
fell
in a pretty
shaped to a pout.
and
Your
that's something.
good enough to be bad in an
or-
dinary literary manner, and doesn't stand
by itself in a melancholy
position altogether
worse than assailable.
— "That
an historical romance
may nowadays have
any chance of being sustained,
interest in
it is
indis-
pensable that the reader find himself under the guidance of some nearly extinct species of legendary, who, in addition to an impulse towards antiquarian research and an
unweakened
faith
shall possess
an inventive faculty in which
in
delicacy of sentiment
the mediasval halo,
is
far overtopped
by
a power of welding to stirring incident a spirited variety of the elementary
human
