Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...I knew that there was nothing in it; I was the first--the only one Her heart had thought of for a minute. I knew it, for she told me so, In phrase which was divinely moulded: She wrote a charming hand, --and oh! How sweetly all her notes were folded! Our love was like most other loves;--A little glow, a little shiver, A rosebud, and a pair of gloves, And "Fly not yet"--upon the river; 280 THE BELLE OF THE BALL-ROOM. Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted, A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, --and then we parted. We parted; months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after: Our parting was all sob and sigh; Our meeting was all mirth and laughter; For in my heart's most secret cell There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only--Mrs Something Rogers! OU tell me you 're promised a lover, My own Araminta, next week 3 Why cannot my fancy discover The hue of his coat and his cheek? Alas! if he look like another, A vicar, a banker, a beau, Be deaf to your father and mother, My own Araminta, say " No l" Miss Lane, at her Temple of Fashion, Taught us both how to sing and to speak, And we loved one another with passion Before we had been there a week: 282 A LETTER OF ADVICE. You gave me a ring for a token; I wear it wherever I go: I gave you a chain, --is it broken? My own Araminta, say "No!" O think of our favourite cottage, And think of our dear " Lalla Rookh!" How we shared with the milkmaids their pottage, And drank of the stream from the brook; How fondly our loving lips faltered, "What further can grandeur bestow?" My heart is the same;--is yours altered? My own Araminta, say " No!" Remember the...