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"Nor I," answered Mrs Moran with a h "Do you know, that I told John to buytoo wide, because I often heardwas unlucky" Then both woether the stores of fine linen and damask, which the mother of Joris had laid up for her son's use

It was a char visit, and the sweet pause in the vivid life of the past feeeks, was equally charht ended; then she went to the parlour and drank a cup of tea, and closed the curtains, and sat down by the hearth to wait for her father and mother It was likely they would be a little late, but theperfect, and then she was sure they would have so much to tell her, when they did reach home

So still was the house, so still was the little street, that she easily went to the land of reverie, and lost herself there She thought over again all her life with her lover; recalled his sweet spirit, his loyal affection, his handso ht, "and now my fortune has arrived at my wishes Even his delay is sweet I desire to think of hiotten! Oh, what lover could be loved as I love him!"

Then with a soft but quick movement the door flew open, she lifted her eyes, to fill thee and vesture; and with a cry of joy flew toafar, but now so near "O lovely and beloved! O my love!" Hyde cried, and then there was a twofold silence; the very ecstasy that no mortal words can utter The sacred hour for which all their lives had longed, was at last dropt down to thes re to each other in visible sweetness, while "Love breathed in sighs and silences Through two blent souls, one rapturous undersong"