Raising her hand to her throat she essays to draw it from her bosom.

Her fingers rest upon the chain which binds it to her neck, but the o'erfraught heart is still,--the troubled, but unconscious head droops upon his shoulder,--he lifts the chain from its resting-place, and withdraws the token from her heart.
Supporting her with one hand and holding this badge of a lost love with the other, he says, looking down upon her with a face of anguish, and in a voice of despair, "_And she could wear it thus!_" As this scene rose and lived before him, Surrey exclaimed, "Surely that must have been the perfection of art, to have produced an effect so lasting and profound,--'and she could wear it thus!'-- ah," he said, as in response to some unexpressed thought, "but Emily loved Ravenswood.
Why-- ?" Evidently he was endeavoring to answer a question that baffled him..