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94 with such unearthly light! "Even thus," I thought, "must the herald-angel have looked, who brought to the shepherds, watching over their flocks by night, that sweet message of 'peace on earth, good-will to men'?"

"Yes, dear friend!" he said, as if in answer to the question that I suppose he read in my face. "It is true! It is true!"

No need to ask what was true. "God bless you both!" I said, as I felt the happy tears brimming to my eyes. "You were made for each other!"

"Yes," he said, simply, "I believe we were. And what a change it makes in one's Life! This isn't the same world! That isn't the sky I saw yesterday! Those cloudsI never saw such clouds in all my life before! They look like troops of hovering angels!"

To me they looked very ordinary clouds indeed: but then I had not fed 'on honeydew, And drunk the milk of Paradise!

"She wants to see youat once," he continued, descending suddenly to the things of earth. "She says that is the one drop yet wanting in her cup of happiness!"