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12 There was something in the quiet tone of her voice--something in the meek fold of her embrace--something in the long weeping kiss that she kept breathing tenderly over his brow and eyes--that justified to the Blind Man his marriage with such a woman. "Let us be married, Fanny, on the day fixed before I lost my sight. Till now I knew not fully either your heart or my own--now I fear nothing. Would--my best friend--I could but see thy sweet face for one single moment now--but that can never be!"———"all things are possible to God———and although to human skill your case is hopeless———it is not utterly so to my heart———yet if ever it becomes so, Allan, then will I love thee better even than I do now, if indeed my heart can contain more affection than that with which it now overflows."

Allan Bruce and Fanny Raeburn were married. And although there was felt, by the most careless heart, to be something sad and solemn in such nuptials, yet Allan made his marriage-day-one of sober cheerfulness in his native village. Fanny wore her white ribbands in the very way that used to be pleasant to Allan's eyes; and blind he now was, these eyes kindled with a joyful smile when he turned the clear sightless orbs towards his bride, and saw her within his soul arrayed in the simple white dress which he heard all about him saying so well became her sweet looks. Her relations