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sullied by cried upon hiht--he HAD--let her go easily, as one

resigns his careless hold upon a paltry, unprized toy; but when her

hand had rested thus in his, and his passionate regards penetrated

her soul, he loved her, alone and entirely! She would fold this

conviction to her torpid heart for a little while before she turned

herself away finally from the memories of that love-summer and

battle-autu

sos of sentiency, it would do her no hurt to realize

through these that it had once been alive

She saw a shadow approaching to join itself to hers upon the

whitened floor without, before Mr Dorrance interrupted her reverie

by words

"The fury of the tempest you admire proves its paternity," he said,

with a azines of frost, snow, and wintry wind that lie far to the

north-east even of ion you would think

drear and inhospitable after the more clement airs of of your native

State"