But Oliver saw by the paleness of his complexion that he did really faint, and much wondering at the weakness of the young man, he said, "Well, if you did counterfeit, take a good heart, and counterfeit to be a man."

Of course, all this was only a question of time; but certain it is, that by-and-by the mother could see some connection between Mysie's being more seldom out on those moonlight nights than formerly, and a greater paleness in her thin face, as if the one had been the cause of the other.

Now this very instant Health takes its last leave of her; meager paleness Like winter, nips the Roses and the Lilies, The Spring that youth, and love adorn'd her face with.

[Sidenote: Approach of death, paleness by no means an invariable effect, as we find in novels.

Margaret heard it through the dark; she kissed the dog with a strange paleness on her face, and stood up, quiet, attentive as before.

It was at the deep midnight hour when he announced his mysterious presence, by laying his icy hand and spreading his marble paleness over the form of the departing sister.

They reached the library, and Emmeline's agitation increased almost to fainting; she leaned more heavily on St. Eval's arm; though her heart beat almost audibly, and her cheek vied in its paleness with a marble statue near her, not a word betrayed her emotion.