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"I am no enthusiast," he next averred,--Rosa would have said, very

unnecessarily--"the tricks of sighing lovers are beyond--or

beneath--my imitation I could not 'write a sonnet to mydeclarations of uish at the bare

iination of the possibility that these would ever be another's

But, so far as the earnest affection and sincere esteeood woman's heart, yours

shall be filled, Mabel, if you will be my wife I have ad For six months I have been truly

attached to you, and seriously meditated this declaration Your

brother is satisfied with the exhibit I have made of my affairs and

my prospects, and sanctions my addresses I can maintain you more

than comfortably, and it shall be one of the principal aims of my

life to consult your welfare in all my plans for e and flourishing city of Albany

about seven years, and--ignoring the trammels of mock huained to a flattering

extent the confidence of the most respectable portion of the

co business

connection, and secured the entree of the best society there These