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244 the signs of something unspeakably great and beautiful. I am of opinion that love is a great and beautiful thing too; and if you agree with me, the smallest signs of it will not be chips and sawdust to you; they will rather be like those little words, "light" and "music," stirring the long winding fibres of your memory, and enriching your present with your most precious past.