Beadle's Dime Novels No. 14 — page 101: what you’re looking at

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ROSALI“’S LETTFR. 99 appointed me terribly. The morning of your selfish and un- gallant flight, I had as sweet a confession to bear to you, as your fondest dream could anticipate. Think not,that Rosalie — Sloane was about to throw herself at your feet. If she ever had a weakness like that, she has recovered from it, and is none the worse for it. “But I had shared the room of an innocent babe, pure and undefiled, ‘unskilled in all the arts that worldlings prize,’ and I won her gentle confidence. She told me, with such shy blushes, the reason why she had once refused the hand of the man she loved best in the world—that it was because she thought an infirmity, which unfitted her to be the wife of so proud and sensitive a person, was fixed hopelessly upon her— and now that infirmity was removed, she hesitated to manifest a retraction of her refusal, lest, in the mean time, he had grown indifferent to her—timid thing! I made her happy by assuring her that man still loved her—her only upon earth ; that his passion, instead of being exterminated, was like chamomile, and throve the more, the more it was trampled upon. Haying convinced her of this sweet truth (as I deemed it) I took an asthetic pleasure in her emotions. «She wept with pity and delight, __ She blush’d with love and virgin shame, And, like the murmur ofa . I heard her breathe (thy) name. *** She half-inclosed me with her arms, She press’d me with a meek embrace, And bending back her head look’d up And omitad into my face.’ “So, having medicined her to the sweetest sleep she had ever had, I lay awake nearly all night, thinking of the pretty and delicate way in which I should approach the morose lover with the glad tidings. F “When morning came, I found he had taken to ignominious flicht.. For a time, I was so bitterly provoked and disappoint- ed, that I firmly resolved never to break the net-work of error in which he had purposely involved himself. ' “But the sight of a wan, sad face, a pair of pitiful eyes, which tried to smile their loving farewell at me when the omnibus moved off for the cars, with a certain party among its passengers, moved me to break my iron resolution. CcomiclboOoks.conn ~