In the commencement of the ensuring reign he obtained the royal
sanction to use the name and arms of Percy; and in his grateful
affection and the virtuous distinctions he early attained, his mother
met with her reward.
Theresa, the helpless Theresa, the guardian-ship of whose person had
been bequeathed to Helen, as a mournful legacy, by Lord Greville, was
removed with her from her dreary imprisonment at the Cross, and to
the latest moment of her existence partook of her affectionate and
watchful attention.
It was a touching sight to behold these two unfortunate beings,
linked together by ties of so painful a nature, and dwelling together
In companionship. The one, richly gifted with youthful loveliness,
clad in a deep mourning habit, and bearing on her countenance an air
of fixed dejection. The other, though far her elder in years, still
beautiful,--with her long silver hair, blanched by sorrow, not by
time, hanging over her shoulders; and wearing, as if in mockery of
her unconscious widowhood, the gaudy and embroidered raiment to which
a glimmering remembrance of happier times appeared to attach her--
that vacant smile and wandering glance of insanity lending at times a
terrible brilliancy to her features. But for the most part her malady
assumed a cast of settled melancholy, and patient as
"The female dove ere yet her golden couplets are disclosed,
Her silence would sit drooping.
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