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Presently I made her let me come and choose which frock she was to put

on for dinner, and I insisted that I should stay and see her hair being

brushed, and the maid, Henriette, with her French eye, bealy!

While Burton almost blubbered with happiness when I told hiain

"I knew it, Sir Nicholas, if you'd just ht he was!

What a dinner we had, gay as two children, fond and foolish as

sweethearts always are,--and then the afterwards!

"Let us go and see the streets," my little love implored, "I feel that

we should shout our divine happiness with the crowd!"

But ent out on the balcony to investigate,that would be

ih onSo we stood there and sang and cheered with theradually a delirious intoxication

held us both, and I drew her back into the softly lighted room

"Lover!" she whispered as she melted into my arms, and all I answered

was, "Soul of Mine"

And now I knohat the whole of those verses mean!

And so this Journal is done!