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received one * How will you make your entree to the court the Bishop holds tonight . Fanny -Hush ! there ' s a step on the gravel "walk ! ( A face looks in at the window . Fanny starts , and then stands Jixed for a moment . Face disa ]) pears . ) Valentine . —Well , Fanny , I must say that you jump at a valentine when he does come . Fanny . —Who is it ? Valentine . —How strange , Fanny , that you , of all people in the world , should have an unknown valentine !
Fanny . —Strange ! — though I should never see the face again I feel as if 1 should never forget it;—{ singing )—< c Sweet , I am thine , My Valentine . Valentine . —So our little Fan is not to wear the willow after all ; and I shall twine one more wreath , in the hope that it may deck the brows of your incognito to-night .
Fanny { singing ) . " Sweet , I am thine My Valentine . " Valentine . —And now you are minus a billet-doux . I might spare you one of the three with which fate has blessed methough the benedictions are not very unctuous of the influence of •« the Nine . "
Fanny { singing ) . " Sweet , I am thine My Valentine . " Valentine . —That is the third time you have given your incog , his assurance . What a pity he is not here to receive it . Enter Maxwell , Mr . Herbert , Mne . Herbert .
Mr . Herbert . —There is my bird singing at her sport . I should tell you that I am transgressing the law in bringing you here . All strangers must have seen a valentine ere permitted to approach the shrine of the saint ; and even thofce of the household are not accounted worthy to render homage until they have received one . But the Medes and Persians never were tempted bv old and dear friendship—so we must
be forgiven . Young Maxwell . —My dear sir , your justice remains unimpeachable . I am not only a devout worshipper of the law , but as yet have heen a strict observer also ; and here is my sweet witness . II 2
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Valentine ' s Day . 99
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/35/
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