Excerpt from The Sphinx in Aubrey Parish: A NovelEaster, and the physicians consulted ominously. It drew a very black cloud for him over the Easter holidays. It muf¿ed the Easter anthems to a dirge and made the Easter festivals to mock his fearful and heavy heart. And thenceforth rose in his soul the consciousness that he loved the child, loved her as he thought with a love that would outlast the very skies over him and her. Helen recovered. Did the favorite ¿owers he sent her tell her? Did the eager eyes and the grateful words which greeted her when for the first time she came down stairs and lay on the lounge in the library, and Miss Hannah stood sentinel over them when Frederic Ardenne came in with her aunt's permission? In that hour when herself was re vealed to her she became a woman. And yet one word was never spoken, though they from hence forth knew each other. As ivy that twines itself about the oak is silent, so noiselessly did the ten drils of Helen's love twine themselves around the life of Frederic Ardenne.With a light, airy, girlish step and the rustle of silk in the hall Helen De Vere entered the library. Frederic Ardenne rose to meet her.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.