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It seeotten the contract, ave up her whole plan as soon as I no longer opposed her and submitted to her i! We are spending marvelously happy days

Today she had me read to her the scene between Faust and Mephistopheles, in which the latter appears as a wandering scholar Her glance hung on e pleasure

"I don't understand," she said when I had finished, "how a hts with such expression, and interpret theently, can at the same time be such a visionary and super sensual ninny as you are"

"Were you pleased," said I, and kissed her forehead

She gently stroked my brow "I love you, Severin," she whispered "I don't believe I could ever love any one more than you Let us be sensible, what do you say?"

Instead of replying I folded her in uely sad happiness filled rew moist, and a tear fell upon her hand

"How can you cry!" she exclaimed, "you are a child!"

On a pleasure drive we e He seemed to be unpleasantly surprised to see me by Wanda's side, and looked as if he wanted to pierce her through and through with his electric gray eyes She, however, did not see down before her and kissing her feet She let her glance glide over hih he were an inaniracious sht to her to-day she seemed suddenly unaccountably distracted and ," she said when I was already standing on the threshold

"It is entirely in your hands to shorten the hard period of ine that this compulsion isn't a torment for me, too," Wanda interjected

"Then end it," I exclai her, "be reat firhtened in my innermost soul

"You are not the man for me"

I looked at her, and sloithdrew my arm which was still about her waist; then I left the room, and she--she did not call me back