We can't promise him anything very nice;
but he is welcome, you know, and must try and accommodate himself to our
changed circumstances."
There is to me nothing more beautiful to contemplate than the picture of
two young lovers brought happily together after years of trial and
disappointment, themselves representing what there is good and pure in
the human heart. It is then we seem to see the heart liberate itself
from guile, and truth and right rejoice in their triumph over wrong.
There was just such a picture presented by Mattie Chapman, the
true-hearted American girl, and the active, earnest, persevering, and
modest, American boy, just at this moment.
The day was bright and breezy, and there, high up on that hill
overlooking the Tappan Zee, under that clump of trees, with their
embracing branches forming a bower, in the very spot where they had
liberated their hearts and pledged their love, and bid each other a sad
adieu on the morning Tite sailed on his voyage, the young lovers were
seated again. Hour after hour passed, and still they sat there, for Tite
was recounting his adventures; telling Mattie the story of his strange
voyage, and listening in return to her recital of what had taken place
during his absence.
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