[The Monikins by J. Fenimore Cooper]@TWC D-Link bookThe Monikins CHAPTER XXX 10/15
I thought it might be grateful to you, at least, to know, Anna, that I have ceased to look for happiness in my affections for all, and am only so much the better disposed to turn in search of it to one." "To love our neighbor as ourself, is the latest and highest of the divine commands," the dear girl answered, looking a thousand times more lovely than ever, for my conclusion was very far from being displeasing to her.
"I do not know that this object is to be attained by centring in our persons as many of the goods of life as possible; but I do think, Jack, that the heart which loves one truly, will be so much the better disposed to entertain kind feelings towards all others." I kissed the hand she had given me, and we now began to talk a little more like people of the world, concerning our movements.
The interview lasted an hour longer, when the heaven.
"You never yet were so unkind to one who was offensive; much less could you willingly have plotted this cruelty to one you regard!" Anna could no longer control herself, but her cheeks were wetted with the usual signs of feeling in her sex.
Then smiling in the midst of this little outbreaking of womanly sensibility, her countenance became playful and radiant. "That letter ought not to be altogether proscribed, neither, Jack.
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