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ings and recollections grew upon her ; she grasped the curtain convulsively , —she put it further aside , —she raised herself on the couch more perfectly to peruse that face . It was he > —he who had told he would come if she called to him , —would succour her- shelter her if she came to him ! She had come ,
, and ^ oif lie had succoured and sheltered her was sufficiently evident . She took the pillow on which she had lain , and gently insinuated it beneath his head ; his head sunk heavily upon it , as if conscious that the sleep which had hitherto been stealthy , might now be sound , —and sound it was .
Where was the spirit wandering in the land of dreams , while that grateful girl bent over the sleeper and poured out her spirit in tears of gratitude and re-awakened love \ How well remembered was the countenance on which she gazed , and yet
how changed it was ! but she bowed her pale face and softly kissed that brow , bronzed by many a storm and furrowed by many a sorrow , with a feeling more fond and holy than she had ever felt before ; and she took his hand , hard and brown with the honourable toils of industry , and , in the innocent
fervour of her gratitude , pressed it between her own , with an emotion of veneration such as her late holiday lover never could have inspired . Sometimes sleep flies suddenly , and eyes open at once in calm and perfect wakefulness : thus , after tlie profound refreshment he had experienced , did Edmund wake , and his eyes immediately met the tear-bathed eyes of Clara . There was no
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feeling in the same language . In the hours during which she had watched Kdmund ' s sleep , she had grown familiar with her situation , and was prepared to meet the joyous welcome of his waking eyes with equal joyfulness ; and if the spirits of purity , of gratitude , of devotion , were ever present at a re-union , they were present when Clara was pressed to the manly
bosom of that sole friend , who , through all the vicissitudes of fortune , and events of time , had kept an anchorage for her in his heart .
Joy , hope , and love , as if by magic , brought back health and strength to the frame of Clara ; and soon beneath the bright beautiful light of a tropical moon , and its many stars , she sat on the deck listening to the story of Ivlmunds sorrows and successes , his trials and triumphs . 44 , Clara , " he exclaimed , pressing her hand , and pausing at the binnacle , to which he pointed , — " My heart has been
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 24, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/24/
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