The nature of his work had animated his
countenance with an uncommon degree of vivacity; and being dressed
in a neat deshabille, his figure could not have appeared to
more advantage in the eye of a person who despised the tinsel of
unnecessary ornament. She was extremely well pleased to see her
expectations so agreeably disappointed; for, instead of the squalid
circumstances and wretched looks attending indigence and distraction,
everything was decent and genteel; and the patient's aspect such
as betokened internal satisfaction. Hearing the rustling of silk
in his room, he lifted up his eyes from the paper, and, seeing her
ladyship, was struck with astonishment and awe, as at the unexpected
apparition of some supernatural being.
Before he could recollect himself from his confusion, which called
the blood into his cheeks, she told him that, on the strength of
old acquaintance, she was come to visit him, though it was a long
time since he had given her good reason to believe he had absolutely
forgot that there was such a person as she in being.
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