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"All day yesterday I was very busy, and very happy in my ceaseless

bustle; for I a

fears about the new sphere, et cetera: I think it a glorious thing

to have the hope of living with you, because I love you No, sir,

don't caress me now--let me talk undisturbed Yesterday I trusted

well in Providence, and believed that events orking together

for your good and mine: it was a fine day, if you recollect--the

cal your

safety or comfort on your journey I walked a little while on the

paveination

so near ht of

the life that lay beforethan my own: as much more so as the depths

of the sea to which the brook runs are than the shallows of its own

strait channel I wondered why moralists call this world a dreary

wilderness: for me it blossomed like a rose Just at sunset, the

air turned cold and the sky cloudy: I went in, Sophie called -dress, which they had just brought;

and under it in the box I found your present--the veil which, in

your princely extravagance, you sent for from London: resolved, I

suppose, since I would not have jewels, to cheatas costly I smiled as I unfolded it, and devised how I

would tease you about your aristocratic tastes, and your efforts to

masque your plebeian bride in the attributes of a peeress I though

hoould carry down to you the square of une for h for a wo her husband

neither fortune, beauty, nor connections I saw plainly how you

would look; and heard your ihty disavowal of any necessity on your part to aug either a purse or a