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Things had remained for some time in this situation at once so critical and so delightful, and all parties seemed afraid by a single word to break the charm which held them in their places : but such a state is not made to endure long; the march of human time goes on; its law is to leave nothing unchanged; and while the heart would fondly cling to the fragile blis's of the present, it finds itself left behind, sighing in vain after what is gone for ever.