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old-fashioned way of doing things . Such r 6 matttic people are not at all to my taste , and never do well in the wfert * . Ttf-day they are going to do a most extraordinary thing , anfl ^ ock iripy vulgar , —keep Valentine ' s day ! they always do so ;—Antf'T aid hear , that last year Mr . Herbert actually wroteaVaTetittt& ' td
his own cook ! Poor Mrs . Herbert , what she ^^ mive suffered ? / ' Young MaxiuelL—Herbert ! — Valentine ' s day ! - — \ t niiist be ! All you tell me convinces me that it must be ttiy father ' s old friend ; the friend whose name I bear ; the ' .. { friend ^ tio made him all he was , and afterwards saved liith ffbtii the clutches of those who would have brought him to ruiH . Itell
me , —he is married—he has one son and one daughter—arid he is in the law ? , t r
Aunt Braygahble . —Y—e—e—s . , Young Maxwell . I —This is a pleasure little dreamt of . Sly father ' s old friend Herbert !—the dear kind Herbert xtho , has nursed the so often when a child no higher than this tat > ie ; ' 4 old me many a merry tale ; lifted me to the cherry trees' td ' plftk ' &t me many a merry tale ; litted me to the cherry trees to piay ^ at
" bob" in the " natural way . " This is indeed a happine $ sV ilid the more that I can explain the secret of this festival dfVialJriitine ' s day . My father has often recounted to me how " g 6 (^ d Saint Valentine won for Herbert the treasure of has ftejarer other self , a noble and tender wife . He was always a romantic fellow , a devout believer in love at first sight , ( 01 which * sAme
creed I confess myself a devotee ) , —[ Miss Braygabhle Idoki nt Mary Anne ]'—a craver after old legends , and a religious observer of the poetries of old custom . St . Valentine livaSvjhe of the saints belonging to his calendar . It was his ,, wont always to visit some before unknown place on that day , that " his valentine" at all events might have the charm of novelty . In one of those rambles , —the place where , I forget , —it was his fortune to encounter , according to the laws his eaintship of the
14 th of February prescribes , a pair of lovely eyes , a combination of sentiment , superstition , and fun , most likely the counterpart of the expression in his own . They found their way at once to his heart , and he never rested till he had gained , through some circuitous means , an introduction to their owner . " Valentine ' s day , " in the following year , saw him married £ o
her ; and by strange coincidence , on that same day , the year after , their st > n was born . Could they do other than name liim 44 Valentine ?"—Can they do other than keep " VateVitijie * 8 day ? " .. '"' , ' ' Mary Anne . — -And I wish I were going to keep it wjtt tjftiem , with all tny heart ! ' . ,
Maxwell , —Is Miss Herbert like her mother , or , at 1 £$ ls 4 , as exquisite a creature as tny father described fyer to "tie ?» ~ Aunt Bray gabble . —Yes ; they are alike certainly . Miss
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/33/
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