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Despite the sad occurrences of the preceding autuhout the day Change of scene--and that to untravelled eyes--conjoined with the sensation of freedo nature ready enough to take advantage of any adventitious restoratives

Point-blank grief tends rather to seal up happiness for a tiriefs of anticipation that move onith the days: these may be said to furroay the capacity for pleasure

Her expectations fro family, who had always sadly needed her, was already definitely pictured in her fancy, which, in its exuberance, led her on to picturing its individual members, their possible peculiarities, virtues, and vices, and obliterated for a time the recollection that she would be separated fro, as she waited for his return in the evening, her eyes fell on her left hand The conteirlhood of this age is, it seems, very frequently, if not always, followed by a peculiar train of ro about her future, becaroove She leant back in her chair, and taking hold of the fourth finger, which had attracted her attention, she lifted it with the tips of the others, and looked at the s time

She whispered idly, 'I wonder who and what he will be?

'If he's a gentleer so, just with the tips of his own, and with so of his lip, slip the ring so lightly on that I shall hardly know it is there--looking delightfully intosoldier, I expect he will proudly turn round, take the ring as if it equalled her Majesty's crown in value, and desperately set it on ly upon what he is doing--just as if he stood in battle before the eneh, in reality, very fond of me, of course), and blush as er and the ring in this way, and deck it out with a housewifely touch and a tenderness of expression about his mouth, as sailors do: kiss it, perhaps, with a siareat crowd saying, "Ah! they are happy now!"