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Seldom is Love ushered into any life with any pomp of circumstance or cereue to our play, and the s occur as if by mere accident A friend delayed Cornelia a while on the street; and turning, shehad not been Ah, but so, and the delay had been intended, and the consequences foreseen!

In a dim kind of way Hyde realized this fact as he sat the next day with an open book before hi of Cornelia--of her pure, fresh beauty; and of that adorable air of reserve, which enhanced, even while it veiled her charn all adventures and prison et all other beauties; in a word, I could marry, and live in the country Oh how exquisite she is! I lose my speech when I think of her!"

Then he closed his book with iht a little rush basket filled with sweet violets Into theircard, and saw the boy on his ith the flowers to Cornelia ere he was satisfied they would reach her quickly enough This finished, he began to consider what he should do with his day Study was i that was possible "It is the ," he o to the adored one, every hour, and tell her so,"--then turning aimlessly into Pearl Street, he saw Cornelia

She was dressed only in a little own of Indian chintz, but in such simple toilet had still more distinctively that air of youthfulHe hasted to her side He blessed his good angel for sending hiant things, in the most truthful o on her lovely face, and saw by gliht that never was on sea or land, but only on a wo to Love

Cornelia was going to the "Universal Store" of Gerardus Duyckinck, and Hyde begged to go with her He said he was used to shopping; that he alith his mother, and with Lady Christina Griffin, and Mrs White, and ood taste, and could tell the value of laces, and kne to choose a piece of silk, or match the crewels for her embroidery; and, indeed, pleaded his case sohis offer And how it happened lovers can tell, but after the shopping was finished they found the towards the Battery with the fresh sea wind, and the bright sunshine and the joy of each other's presence all around them