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"So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted. But yet an union in partition." Midsummer Night's Dream.

was late that evening when Walter returned home, the little family were assembled at the last and lightest meal of the day; Ellinor silently made room for her cousin beside herself, and that little kindness touched Walter. "Why did I not love her?" thought he, and he spoke to her in a tone so affectionate, that it made her heart thrill