Some treasure it through life had sought.
As if the very lips and eyes,
Predestined to have all our sighs,
And never be forgot again,
Sparkled and spoke before us then!”
So Philip’s eyes “sparkled and spoke” as he advanced to meet the idol of his heart, and as for Lucy, why, as dear old Dan Chaucer puts it,—
“No lesse was she in secret heart affected,
But that she maskèd it in modestie.”
NATHAN AT DINNER.—[Page 265].