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I mistrusted my own happiness: ness prevailed: it was the mystic and the tender | I could scarcely bring myself to believe that I was hour for such a scene as that. Though the convic- | so ineffably blest as to own the love of that bright tion was previously strong in myheart that Antonia | and beautiful being. I recollect too, that I sate loved me,—yet when I received the avowal from | here totally immoveable for upwards of an hour,— her lips, I felt as if I could literally have cried out afraid to make the slightest motion—afraid to look for very joy; and throwing myself at her feet, I around me—or even breathe too hard, lest I should pressed her hand to my lips, calling heaven to wit- | dispel the elysian dream in which I was cradled. ness the sincerity of the vow which I then pledged, | At length—when aroused from this delicious to the effect that never by word nor deed would I! reverie, and convinced that it was all true, and wound the heart which had sent up the softly mur- | that I was abandoning myself to no illusion—L mured confession of love that had just fallen from knelt down and returned thanks to heaven for her lips. It was the happiest hour that I had ever having bestowed so much happiness upon me. in my life yet known—although I had previously There was an enthusiastic fervour in my thoughts passed many and many a happy one in the society | which I can only comprehend for myself, but can- of Antonia. I remember that when I returned | not find language wherewith to convey it to the home, I sate myself down upon this very sofa, and understanding of another. Not for a single in- asked myself whether it could all possibly be true, | stant was my bliss alloyed or marred by the or whether I was wrapt in a delicious dream that | thought that my fervid aspirations were doomed was a followed by the awakening of blank dis- | to disappointment, and that my exalted hopes Se a aL a Raa a a a> USSSSnInasootsomlbca ainsi mauanasoo-cnauanov-acnibsamuaiaaempagtins anammimma Gomicwvooks (©)