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"Love and a crown no rivalship can bear

Love, love! Thou sternly dost thy power n"

Neil's first eer as of exultation The

civilization of the Seenerations of fierce men, whose hands had been on their dirks for

a word or a look "I shall have hi to himself as he turned from Hyde to Van Heemskirk's

house The front-door stood open; and he walked through it to the

back-stoop, where Joris was s

Katherine sat upon the steps of the stoop Her head was in her hand, her

eyes red eeping, her whole attitude one of desponding sorrow But,

at this hour, Neil was indifferent to adverse circu in that exultation of spirit which ood wine, but which is only genuine when the soul takes

entire possession of the man, and makes him for some rare, short

interval lord of himself, and contemptuous of all fears and doubts and

difficulties He never noticed that Joris was less kind than usual; but

touching Katherine, to arouse her attention, said, "Coarden, ly His words and h she had just been assuring herself that she would

resist his advances on every occasion, she rose at his request and gave