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Therewith things returned to their usual course, and she was beginning to feel as if all had been a drea, about a week later, her suitor appeared to have one of those e fits of youthful ardour; her hand was passionately seized, caressed, toyed with by a war ier hairy Surely he had been shaving! Was the time for which he bade her wait, his full recovery, and the resumption of the youthfulness that seemed to come on him in fits and starts, and then to ebb away, and leave hirave courteous old man she had first known? And as it always in a whisper that he spoke forth all those endeare eht, she found her fourth finger encircled with an exquisite e, which seeible Another tiive a lock of her hair, and she of course did so, though it was strange that it should confer any pleasure on her suitor in the dark