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omens on the flower, and cloud, and face, and form,
and gesture, and reads them alright. In his sur-
prise at the sudden and entire understanding that
is between him and the beloved person, it occurs
to him that they might somehow meet indepen-
(lently of time and place. llow delicious the belief
that he could elude all guards, precautions, cere-
monies, means, and (lelays, and hold instant and
sempiternal communication! In solitude, in ban-
islnnent, the hope returned, and the experiment
was eagerly tried. The supernal powers seem t0
take his part. lVliat was on his lips to say is
uttered by his friend. ‘Vhen he went abroad, he
met. by wonderful casualties, the one person he
sought. If in his walk he chanced to look back,
his friend was walking behind him. And it has
happened that the artist has often drawn in his
pictures the face of the future wife whom he had
not yet seen.

But also in complacencies nowise so strict as this
of the passion, the man of sensibility counts it a
delight only to hear a childls voice fully addressed
to him, or to see the beautiful manners of the
youth of either sex. ‘Vhen the event is past and
remote, how insignificant the greatest compared
with the piquancy of the presentl To-day at the
school examination the professor interrogates Syl-

vina in the history’ class about Odoacer and Alarie.