A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 33: what you’re looking at

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A SECRET. 31 <8 A, 2? ‘* You are a thoughtful man; you know human nature well; you know that passing flirtations are very common occurrences; you know that young ladies will sometimes imagine they are in love, when, after all, it is merely a sentiment of the hour. ’’ ‘* Do you intend to assume this to be the case, and act as though it were, in this experience of yours?”’ ‘* Is it not possible that I may judge rightly in this case?’’ ‘* Is that your judgment?’’ ‘+ Is it not possible that it is a correct judgment?” TIN Oe, ! ‘* Why are you so certain?” ‘* T will tell you why I am so certain. It is true what you say. In many, alas! too many cases there are girls of light, frivolous natures who are ready to fall in love with or without encouragement; the sentiment does not take deep root, is not expected to; nothing does, unless it may be sorrow, with these. But again, there are natures that are modest, retiring, and fearful in matters of the heart— natures who are slow to learn to love, but who, when once love does enter their hearts it takes full possession; it is not the sentiment of an hour, but the fixing of an image around which their whole being is thrown, around which every thought lingers, every hope clusters. ‘These can love but once, because, when they do love, they give al their af- fection, they hold none back to rebuild a fresh growth upon; these can love but once and for all time. Flowers may be blighted by some chilling frost, but no fresh ones will bud and bloom again. Such a character I believe Miss Stude- Gomichbooks bd j ' ot com “" 74 : : i% ‘ F Tr . :