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There were other influences at work,hours in the hall by the leaping light

of the fire and the torches, feasts to be eaten, songs to sing,

dances, revels, and such like Prosper was a cheerful, very sociable

youth He had the ht-hearted

impertinence of a hundred ancestors, all rulers of hed at what he got of it for nothing--

which was plenty There were shaded hours in the Countess's chas were softer and the pauses of the songs softer still;

es; hours in

the south walk in an air thick with the languors of wararden flowers; inti in the open downs; the grass paths; Yule; the music, the hopes

of youth, the sweet faentle restraints, half-entreaties, half-denials:--

no young s unless he thinks of thely (as Prosper never did), and no woman wishes to resist

thean to find rew older They were more than likely

to meet half way