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And Mary Ca like the

place in real life, that it has in poetry--if we have any faith in that

enuine love affair, we ought not to

di it this sojourn in a veritable land

of enchants blossom, that

never would have birth at all, if the niceties and delicacies of courtship

were superseded by the levelling rapidity oflove letters, and both tongue and pen get familiar

with affectionate and noble senti is

an unreasonable and impracticable piece of business; but in this very

circu the

incredible, and in believing the impossible But it is precisely in the

depths of this delicious foolishness that the heart attains its noblest

growth

There rander hopes, many calmer andhalf so sweet in life

As Love's young dreath the wonderful day arrived It had been well prepared for, and

all was in readiness There was no hurry, no fret, no uncertainty Early

in the s and armor of the

Campbells of Drumloch and to adorn the rooms with myrtle and fresh

flowers It was not the fashion then to turn the house into a