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1 AUGUST THE EIGHTH MORNING AND AFTERNOON At post-ti, Cytherea watched so anxiously for the post hiree less tangibility than his presence itself In another second his forht two letters for Cytherea

One fro that she wished Cytherea to come on trial: that she would require her to be at Knapwater House by Monday evening

The other was froht spot of his life: that her existence was far dearer to him than his own: that he had never knohat it was to love till he hadattachments to other faces from time to time; but they all had been weak inclinations towards those faces as they then appeared He loved her past and future, as well as her present He pictured her as a child: he loved her He pictured her of sage years: he loved her He pictured her in trouble; he loved her Homely friendship entered into his love for her, without which all love was evanescent

He wouldstate history, hich it was impossible to acquaint her at present) operated to a certain extent as a drag upon his wishes He had felt thisthan he did now--and it was the cause of his abrupt behaviour, for which he begged her to forgive hi himself, and the perception had proe in the hope of possessing her on soenerated fro words, he had placed himself in a position she would think worthy to be shared with him?

Dear little letter; she huddled it up So irl than to a rove was unconsciously clever in his letters, and a man with a talent of that kindworove already stood a cubit higher in her i the day she flitted about the roo of an anshich should be worthy of the tender tone of the question, her love bubbling fros from a prophet