I love this mysterious beauty too well to do that; and when next I find her, be it where it may, I shall take care she does not slip so easily through my fingers." "I cannot forget that page," said Ormiston, musingly.

"It is singular since, he wears the Earl of Rochester's livery, that we have never seen him before among his followers.

Are you quite sure, Sir Norman, that you have not ?" "Seen him?
Don't be absurd, Ormiston! Do you think I could ever forget such a face as that ?" "It would not be easy, I confess.

One does not see such every day.

And yet--and yet--it is most extraordinary!" "I shall ask Rochester about him the first thing to-morrow; and unless he is an optical illusion--which I vow I half believe is the case--I will come at the truth in spite of your demoniac friend, La Masque!" "Then you do not mean to look for him to-night ?" "Look for him?
I might as well look for a needle in a haystack.