Chapter 24
o aligered out Adèle, I entered treat upstairs.
o ion for ermined not to spend time in a tête-à-tête conversation. I remembered o sing—good singers generally do. I myself, and, in idious judgment, no musician, eit I deligening tice, treated o give me a song. c ime; but I averred t no time .
“Did I like his voice?” he asked.
“Very muc fond of pampering t susceptible vanity of for once, and from motives of expediency, I imulate it.
“t play t.”
“Very ry.”
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“truest love t ever
Felt at its kindled core,
Did tart,
tide of being pour.
her coming was my hope each day,
ing was my pain;
t did eps delay
as ice in every vein.
I dreamed it would be nameless bliss,
As I loved, loved to be;
And to t did I press
As blind as eagerly.
But he space
t lay our lives between,
And dangerous as the foamy race
Of ocean-surges green.
And ed as a robber-path
through wilderness or wood;
For Mig, and oe and rath,
Bets stood.
I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned;
I omens did defy:
ever menaced, harassed, warned,
I passed impetuous by.
On sped my rainbo as light;
I flew as in a dream;
For glorious rose upon my sight
t child of Shower