I am spectator, not partaker, here.
To me it seems more like a pageant made
To represent mirth, than the mirth itself.


The Ancestress (Spoken by Bertha) - The Venetian Bracelet (1829)


I am spectator, not partaker, here. To me it seems more like a pageant made To represent mirth, than the mirth itself.

I am spectator, not partaker, here. To me it seems more like a pageant made To represent mirth, than the mirth itself.

I am spectator, not partaker, here. To me it seems more like a pageant made To represent mirth, than the mirth itself.

I am spectator, not partaker, here. To me it seems more like a pageant made To represent mirth, than the mirth itself.