The air was perfumed with the delicious odor of tropic blossoms, and filled with the sweet murmurs of the gushing fountain.
"Oh! how beautiful! how enchanting!" I exclaimed, in an ecstasy of admiration.

"This must be ideal.

Reality never presented any thing so brilliant, so exquisite as this.

Oh, Ernest, surely this is a place to dream of, not a home to live in ?" "It does, indeed," he answered, "transcend my expectations; but if it pleases your eye, Gabriella, it cannot go beyond my wishes." "Oh yes, it delights my eye, but my heart asked nothing but you.

I fear you will never know how well I love you, in the midst of such regal splendor.