united that prevented undue familiarity and made her difficult of approach the danger of her father and the measures to be taken for his relief had at first overcome this and reserve but as he recovered and her alarm the student of subsided she seemed to shrink from the she had indulged with the youthful stranger and to become every day more shy and silent had read many books but this was the first volume of that he had ever studied he had been with the very title page but the further he read the more he was delighted she seemed formed to love her soft black eye rolled languidly under its long silken lashes and wherever it turned it would linger and repose there was tenderness in every beam to him alone she was reserved and distant now that the common cares of the sick room were at an end he saw little more of her than before his admission to the house sometimes he met her on his way to and from the and at such times there was ever a smile and a blush but after a simple salutation she glided ou and disappeared tis plain thought my presence is indifferent if not irksome to her she has s the student of noticed my i and is determined to it nothing but a feeling of gratitude prevents her treating me with marked and then has she not another lover rich gallant splendid musical how i suppose she would turn her eyes from so brilliant a to a poor obscure student among the of her father s r indeed the idea of the continually haunted his mind he felt convinced that he was a favoured ar yet if so why did he not frequent the tower why did he not make his approaches by noon day there was mystery in this dropping and musical courtship surely could not be encouraging a secret oh no she was too too pure too but then the spanish females were so prone to love and and music and moonlight were so and had such a tender soul in every look oh would the poor scholar exclaim clasping his hands the student of oh that i could but once behold those loving eyes beaming on me with a� it is incredible to those who have not experienced it on what scanty human life and human love may be supported a dry crust thrown now and then to a starving man will give him a new lease of existence and a faint smile or a kind look bestowed at casual intervals will keep a lover loving on when a man in his sober senses would despair when found himself alone in the his mind would be haunted by one of these looks or smiles which he had received in passing he would set it in every possible light and argue on it with all the self pleasing self logic of a lover the country around him was enough to awaken that of so favourable to the growth of passion the window of the tower rose above the trees of the romantic valley of the and looked down upon some of the loveliest scenery of the where groves of and orange were re vol l v the student of by cool springs and of the purest water the and the wound their shining streams along the plain and gleamed from among its the surrounding hills were covered with and the mountains crowned with snow seemed to melt into the blue sky the delicate airs that played about the tower were by the fragrance of and orange blossoms and the ear was charmed with the fond of the which in these happy regions sings the whole day long sometimes too there was the idle song of the along the solitary road or the notes of the from some group of dancing in the shade all these were enough to fill the head of a young lover with poetic fancies and would picture to himself how he could among those happy groves and wander by those gentle rivers and love away his life with he felt at times impatient at his own weak ness and would endeavour to brush away the student of of the mind he would turn his thought with sudden to his studies or occupy himself in some process but often when he had partially succeeded in fixing his attention the sound of or the soft notes of her voice would come stealing upon the stillness of the chamber and as it were floating round the tower there was no great art in her performance but thought he had never heard music to this it was perfect to hear her forth some of her national those little spanish and that transport the idea to the banks of the or the walls of the and make him dream of beauties and and moonlight never was poor student more sadly beset than love is a troublesome companion in a study at the best of times in the of an his intrusion is terribly disastrous instead of attending u the student of to the and and watching the process of some experiment to his charge the student would get in one of these love dreams from which he would often be aroused by some fatal catastrophe the philosopher on returning from his in the would find every thing gone wrong and in despair over the ruins of the whole day s work the old man however took all quietly for his had been a life of experiment and failure we must have patience my son would he say as all the great masters that have gone before us have had errors and accidents and are what we have to contend with did not two hundred times be fore he could obtain even the matter on which to found his experiments the great too did he not labour 