After mature deliberation, we
are inclined to believe that her conquest of Ralph was on this day
completed and perfected:--the conduct of that gentleman for some days
afterwards having been very suspicious. We need only say, that he sat
at his window, gazing moonward--wrote sonnets in a very melancholy
strain, and lost much of his ardor and vivacity. These symptoms are
sufficient for a diagnosis when one is familiar with the disease, and
they were exhibited by Mr. Ralph, on the occasion mentioned. But we
anticipate.
The gay party went out in the grove, and wandering about in the
brilliant October sunlight, gathered primroses and other autumn
flowers, which, making into bunches, they topped with fine slender,
palm-like golden rods:--and so, passing on, came to the old glen
behind, and just beneath the acclivity which made the western horizon
of Apple Orchard.
"Look what a lovely tulip tree!" said Fanny, laughing, "and here is
the old lime-kiln--look!"
Ralph smiled.
"I am looking,"--he said.
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