“Well, well! go home and prepare for your wedding, Nellie! I’ll come and assist at the farce.”

CHAPTER IV.
LOVE.

“——The soul that moment caught

A something it through life had sought.”

—Moore.

“Forbear that dream! My lips are sworn apart

From tender words; mine ears from lover’s vows;

Mine eyes from sights God made so beautiful;

My very heart from feelings which move soft.”

—E. B. Browning.