and spirits dancing in rapture in half a waa at the union street again and the other two proceeding together and had passed them to their dire tion towards the quiet and retired walk where the power of conversation would make tha present hour a indeed and prepare it for all tha which the happiest of their own future lives could bestow there tliey exchanged again feelings and those promises which had once before seemed to secure every thing but which had been followed by so many years of division and there they again into the past more exquisitely happy perhaps in their re union than when it had been first projected more tender more tried more in a knowledge of each other s character truth and attachment more equal to act justified in acting and there as they slowly paced the gradual ascent of every group around them seeing bustling girls nor nursery maids and they could indulge in and and especially in what had directly preceded the present which were so and so c in interest all ths little of the last week were gone through and at yesterday and lo day there could scarcely be an end she had not mistaken him jealousy of mr bad been the weight the doubt the torment that bad begun to operate in ihe very hour of first meeting her in bath that had returned a short lo ruin tho concert and that had influenced him in every thing ba bad said and done or omitted to say and do in the and hours it had been gradually yielding to the ter hopes which her looks or words or actions encouraged it bad been at last bv those talked those i captain which bad reached him while and under the of which he had a sheet of paper and out hid feelings of he then written was to be r he persisted in loved none but she i never been ua never even believed himself to see her equal thus mu oh indeed he was ad to ed � that he had been constant nay ly tb t he had meant to forget her and believed it to be done he had imagined when he had only been angry and he bad been unjust to her merits because he b� ed a from her was now fixed on bis mind as tion itself maintaining the loveliest of fortitude but he was obliged to that only at had he learnt ta do her and only at had b begun to understand at he lad received of more than one sort the admiration of mr hm at last roused him and tne on tbe and captain s had her superiority in his preceding attempts to attach himself to grove the of angry pride he protested tliat he had lor ever felt it to be impossible that he ha l not not care for though till that day till tbe leisure for reflection which it be had not the perfect excellence of the mind with which s could so ill bear a comparison or the perfect hold it � over his own there he bin learnt to between the of and the obstinacy of between the daring of and the resolution of a collected mind there he had seen every thing to in his estimation tbe woman he had lost and there begun lo the pride the folly the madness of resentment which had kept him from trying to regain her when in i way h from that period his penance had become he had sooner been free from the horror and remorse first few days of s accident no sooner begun lo feel alive again than he bad begun to feel himself though not at liberty b i mud he that i was by u en man that nor hia wife � mutual i to decree could this instantly n i lo that might have felt nay s � i was no at my i i was here in honour wished it i been i bad not thought seriously on before i not considered that my excessive must have its danger of ill on in many ways tint i had no right to be trying whether i could myself to either of the at the risk of raising even an report were th� re no other ill i had been wrong and abide the i he too in short it lie had entangled himself and that precisely as ha became fully of his not for at all ha mast regard himself as bound lo her if ner sentiments for him were what the it determined bim to leave and await ber r� elsewhere he would gladly by any i means whatever feelings or m him exist and he went therefore lo his brother s meaning a while to return to and as t i require � i wm fix with edward said he and saw him i could have no other pleasure i none i after you very particularly asked even if vou were personally altered little suspecting that to my eve you could never alter smiled and let it pass it was too a blunder for a reproach it is for a woman lo be assured in ber eight and twentieth year t site has not lost charm of earlier youth bnt the value of such homage � to anne by comparing it with word and feeling it to be the result not the cause of s r� of his warm attachment he remained in the of his own pride and the of his own i at onr a from n by the is and of lier engagement with here said he worst of my stale for now i at least put e f in tbe way of j i bit myself t io to be waiting so long in only for evil had been dreadful within ihe five i said i 