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Shocks of joy, they tell e I cannot

say, for I have had precious little experience of such shocks in my

lifetime, Heaven knows; but in the present instance, I can safely aver,

they had no such disiven that young gentlee he

was to behold the long hidden face of his idol That that face was ugly,

he did not for an instant believe, or, at least, it never world be ugly

to hiht have envied--a

voice sweeter than the Singing Fountain of Arabia, hands and feet the

most perfectly beautiful the sun ever shone on, it was simply a moral

and physical impossibility, then, they could be joined to a repulsive

face There was a remote possibility that it was a little less exquisite

than those ravishing iteine

it homely, compared with them, but he knew he never would share in that

opinion It was the reasoning of lover, rather, the logic; for when

love glides sravely, not to say

sulkily, out of the , and, standing afar off, eyes disdainfully

the didos and antics of her late tenement There was very little reason,