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Yet he was not happy about Cornelia Since that unfortunate o up or down Maiden Lane, she n Several tiiven hi hope; but Arenta's own love affairs were just then at a very interesting point; and, besides, she regarded the young Lieutenant's admiration for her friend as only one of hisreal in it," she reflected, "Cornelia would have talked about hian to remember, with pride, the very sensible behaviour of her own lover "My Athanase," she reflected, "did not give ed He insisted on talking to father about our e settle possible and practical A lover like Joris Hyde is not, I think, very fortunate"

She did not understand that the quality of love in its finest revelation desires, after its first sweet inception, a little period of withdrawal-- it wonders at its strange happiness--broods over it--is fearful of disturbing emotions so exquisite--prefers the certainty of its delicious suspense to a ht in its own poignant anxieties and hopes These are the birth pangs of an immortal love--of a love that knoithin itself, that it is born for Eternity, and need not to hurry the three-score-and-ten years of tie was the love of Cornelia for Joris Hyde His gracious, beautiful youth, seelances had filled her heart with a sweet trouble that she did not understand It was thein the world that she should wish to be apart; that she should desire to brood over feelings so strangely happy; and that in this very brooding they should grow to the perfect stature of a luminous and unquenchable affection

Joris was ree The htful consciousness that he possessed, at least, the tre for the love he craved, roused him from the sweet torpor to which delicious, drea enough," he said one delightful su to see her And it is not an i I desire In short, there is some way to compass it" Then a sudden, invincible persuasion of success caood fortune; he had a conviction that the very stars connived with a true lover to work his will And under this enthusiasalloped into town, took his horse to a stable, and then walked towards Maiden Lane