“‘Never will, says the vision! But I always woke and found it an empty mockery; and I was desolate and abandoned,—my life dark, lonely, hopeless,—my soul athirst and forbidden to drink,—my heart famished and never to be fed. Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you; but kiss me before you go,—embrace me, Jane.’
“‘There, sir; and there!’
“I pressed my lips to his once brilliant and now rayless eyes,—I swept his hair from his brow, and kissed that, too. He suddenly seemed to rouse himself; the conviction of the reality of all this seized him.
“‘It is you,—is it, Jane? You are come back to me, then?’
“‘I am.’”
In “Lothair,” Mr. Disraeli does not leave his hero and heroine until they start to “walk the long path in peace together:”
“‘Where can they have all gone?’ said Lady Corisande, looking round. ‘We must find them.’
“‘And leave this garden?’ said Lothair. ‘And I without a flower, the only one without a flower? I am afraid that is significant of my lot.’
“‘You shall choose a rose,’ said Lady Corisande.