noon
She flung her arms around him with a faint bitter wail . When Lisa came up , she found her mistress kneeling above a wan dead face , which smiled on in the spectral moonbeams . And now I will say no more about these wondrous volumes ; though I could tell many a tale out of them , and could , perhaps , vaguely represent some entrancing thoughts of a deeper kind which I found within them . From many a sultry noon till twilight , did I sit in that grand hall , buried and risen again in these old books . And I trust I have carried away in my soul some of the exhalations of their undying leaves . In after hours of deserved or needful sorrow , portions of what I read there have often come to me again , with an unexpected comforting ; which was not fruitless , even though the comfort might seem in itself groundless and vain . `` Your gallery Ha we pass 'd through , not without much content In many singularities ; but we saw not That which my daughter came to look upon , The state of her mother . ''