[The Emigrants Of Ahadarra by William Carleton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Emigrants Of Ahadarra CHAPTER XIII 13/18
The young fellow, who is desperately in love--there is no doubt of that--thought she had died; and upon my soul, Hycy, there is a freshness and a purity in the strongest raptures of such a passion, that neither you nor I can dream of.
I think, however, I can understand, or guess at rather, the fulness of heart and the tenderness by which he was actuated." "What do you think of Miss Cavanagh ?" asked Hycy, with more of interest than he had probably ever felt in her before. "What do I think ?" said the other, looking at him with a good deal of surprise.
"What can I think? What could any man, that has either taste or common-sense think? Faith, Hycy, to be plain with you, I think her one of the finest girls, if not the very finest, I ever saw.
Heavens! what would not that girl be if she had received the advantages of a polished and comprehensive education ?" "She is very much of a lady as it is," added Hycy, "and has great natural dignity and unstudied grace, although I must say that she has left me under no reason to feel any particular obligations to her." "And yet there is a delicate and graceful purity in the beauty of little Dora, which is quite captivating," observed Clinton. "Very well," replied the other, "I make jou a present of the two fair rustics; give me the interesting Maria.
Ah, Harry, see what education and manner do.
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