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GIVING GLIMPSES OF DIANA UNDER HER CLOUD BEFORE THE WORLD.
AND OF HER FURTHER APPRENTICESHIP As the day of her trial became more closely calculable, Diana's anticipated alarms receded with the deadening of her heart to meet the shock.

She fancied she had put on proof-armour, unconscious that it was the turning of the inward flutterer to steel, which supplied her cuirass and shield.

The necessity to brave society, in the character of honest Defendant, caused but a momentary twitch of the nerves.

Her heart beat regularly, like a serviceable clock; none of her faculties abandoned her save songfulness, and none belied her, excepting a disposition to tartness almost venomous in the sarcastic shafts she let fly at friends interceding with Mr.Warwick to spare his wife, when she had determined to be tried.