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"Why," said the lady, with a treh the rainy streets alone?"

"Because I aht thee from the

mirror there"

"Ah, the mirror!" and she looked up at it, and shuddered "Alas! I am

but a slave, while that mirror exists But do not think it was the power

of thy spells that drewdesire to see me, that

beat at the door of my heart, till I was forced to yield"

"Canst thou love me then?" said Cosmo, in a voice calm as death, but

almost inarticulate with emotion

"I do not know," she replied sadly; "that I cannot tell, so long as I areat, to lay my

head on thy bosoh

I do not know;--but----"

Cosmo rose from his knees

"I love thee as--nay, I know not what--for since I have loved thee,

there is nothing else"

He seized her hand: she withdrew it

"No, better not; I am in thy power, and therefore Ibefore him in her turn, said-"Cosmo, if thou lovest me, set me free, even from thyself; break the

mirror"

"And shall I see thyself instead?"