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 promotes love, as the tiff brocade of our Lady of Loretto inpires devotion. A plain decent dihabille is the proper uniform of love—it makes more conquets than a cuiras of jewels, or an head-piece of point and gauze, with the addition of triumphant plumes, which gain no victory. Friedbert floated in a tream of pleaure, but did not uffer himelf to be hurried away by it. In the tumult of the retoration of the court, amid ong, and dance, and muic, the wrinkles of orrow till furrowed his brow. For him did the fairet maids of Greece adorn themelves, that like armed magnets they might attract his heart more forcibly: nevertheles he remained cold and unmoved. Repecting the theory of love, Zoe had herelf always followed the doctrine of her countryman, the age Plato—whether from inclination, or becaue the watchful jealouy of her depotic huband allowed her paions no freer cope, may be hard to decide; but to a knight in full blood, he thought the enual ytem of Epicurus Rh