Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 126: what you’re looking at

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116 MAUM GUINEA. CHAPTER IX. THE FUGITIVES. d the nightingales softly are singin In the mellow and moons ted se 2 the minstrels their are stringing, _.. And the dancers for dancing prepare. _. None heeds us, beloved Irene! None will po if we linger or fly. Amid all the masks in yon revel, one —that wil gaze or wil i Not one—that will ta or will oa And save the Which, to light us, so 50 enty ale sten, There is none will pursue us, Irene. Oh, love me, oh, save me, I die!—Owen Merepira. These lovers fled away into the night.—Kears, - ‘Vrrersra was in her chamber, standing before the mirror, clasping a pearl necklace about her throat. Her cheeks were flushed, and her eyes brilliant with delight; for it was New Year’s morning, and on the little pier-table were various parcels which she had just opened—the gifts of parents and friends. The handsomest of these was the necklace—sent by Mr. Talfierro as a bridal as well as New Year's present, with his. compliments and congratulations — the Judge -haying ‘informed him, on the previous day, of the approaching mar- riage of his daughter. Philip's gift also was there—a richly ornamented guitar, which he had been to the village expressly to pur@hase, and which was the only thing he could find in the little town which he thought would pease his betrothed. More elaborate and costly presents he intended to select upon his visit to the great city which he also found it necessary to make before the occasion of the wedding. There were books, and perfumes in fancy cases, dresses, and pretty trifles in “profusion ; so that the young girl had hardly known what to comicloooks.comnn)