an independent stand but only to one whom he might into himself he has certainly shown great tenderness for had turned aside but i caught the reflection of her face in the mirror and saw that it was very pale � as pale in her rich attire as if a were round her is here said she her voice a little lower than usual have not you learnt as much from your chamber window would you like to see her she made a step or two into the back drawing room and called dear xx they vanish immediately answered the summons and made her appearance through the door of the i had conceived the idea which i now recognized as a very foolish one that would have taken to me from an interview with this girl between whom and herself there was so utter an of their dearest interests that on one part or the other a great grief if not likewise a great wrong seemed a matter of necessity but as was only a leaf floating on the dark current of events without them by her own choice or plan � as she probably guessed not whither the stream was bearing her nor perhaps even felt its inevitable movement � there could be no peril of her communicating to me any intelligence with regard to s purposes on perceiving me she came with great of manner and when i held out my hand her own moved slightly towards it as if attracted by a feeble degree of i am glad to see you my dear said i still holding her hand but everything that i meet with now a days makes me wonder whether i am awake you especially have always seemed like a figure in a dream and now more than ever o there is substance in these fingers of she they vanish answered giving my hand the faintest possible pressure and then taking away her own why do you call me a dream is much more like one than i she is so very very beautiful and i suppose added as if thinking aloud everybody sees it as i do but for my part it was s beauty not s of which i was thinking at that moment she was a person who could be quite so far as beauty went by anything in her attire her charm was not positive and material enough to bear up against a mistaken choice of color for instance or fashion it was safest in her case to attempt no art of dress for it demanded the most perfect taste or else the happiest accident in the world to give her precisely the which she needed she was now dressed in pure white set with some kind of a fabric which � as i bring up her figure in my memory with a int gleam on her shadowy hair and her dark eyes bent on mine through all the vanished years � seems to be floating about her like a mist i wondered what meant by so much loveliness out of this poor girl it was what few women could afford to do for as i looked from one to the other the and splendor of s presence took nothing from s softer spell if it might not rather be thought to add to it what do you think of her asked i could not understand the look of melancholy kindness with which regarded her she advanced a step and near her kissed her cheek then with a slight gesture of she moved to the other side of the room i followed the romance she is a wonderful creature said ever since she came among us i have been dimly sensible of just this charm which you have brought out but it was never absolutely visible till now she is as lovely as a flower well say so if you like answered you are a poet � at least as poets go now a days � and must be allowed to make an opera glass of your imagination when you look at women i wonder in such a freedom of falling in love as we have lately enjoyed it never occurred to you to fall in love with in society indeed a genuine american never dreams of stepping across the air line which one class from another but what was rank to the of there were other reasons i replied why i should have myself an ass had i fallen in love with by the by has ever seen her in this dress why do you bring up his name at every turn asked in an under tone and with a look which wandered from my face to s you know not what you do it is dangerous sir believe me to thus with earnest human passions out of your own mere idleness and for your sport i will endure it no longer take care that it does not happen again i warn you you partly wrong me if not wholly i responded it is an uncertain sense of some duty to perform that brings my thoughts and therefore my words continually to that one point this stale excuse of duty said in a th� t vanish per so full of scorn that it penetrated me like the hiss of a serpent i have often heard it before from those who sought to interfere with me and i know precisely what it self conceit an insolent curiosity a temper a cold blooded criticism founded on a shallow interpretation of half a monstrous in regard to any conscience or any wisdom except one s own a most to thrust providence aside and substitute one s self in its awful place � out of these and other motives as miserable as these comes your idea of duty but beware sir with all your fancied you step into these affairs for any mischief that 