of fortune and education, would she wind her- "Edla! Edla! ah, do not talk to me so," besought the deeply agitated Nina. "And why not so ?" asked Edla gravely. "Why this emotion-these violent tears? Ni After the first outburst of feeling Edla stepped back, and surveyed Nina with joy and amazement. Nina's beauty had now reached its most splendid development, and was in fact bewitching. She was no more the pale, feeble girl, which a breath threatened to destroy; she was a blooming Hebe, full of health and life. Tears of the purest joy filled Edla's eyes, and she pressed her enchanting sister again to her heart. Nina's silence, her tears, and her visible constraint, distressed Edla, but she took no notice of it. She seated herself quietly beside Nina on the turf bench, and told her of her father, and of his last days, speaking all the while in so gentle a manner that Nina's emotion by degrees calmed itself. There is nothing so well calculated to still the uneasy beating of the heart for earthly weal or wo, as thoughts of the moment when all things cease to us, and all things change around us. There was also in Edla's voice and in her whole being an uncommon softness which did Nina good to her very heart. She involuntarily took courage for the future, and she breathed more lightly. "Edla, let me lie here-here at your feet. Let me open my whole heart to you!" cried Nina, as she sank before her sister on her knee, and hid her face in her hands. "Edla! be not severe toward me. Edla-my sister, my second "Now?" asked Edla, with impatience. Now, Edla! I cannot see Count Ludwig again without explaining to you and him-that I cannot belong to him-that my whole soul, that my whole heart belongs to another!" Edla turned away. "So then it is true," said she with deep pain, "that which they told me-that which I have so violently contended against-that which Nina dared not to discover to her sister! Nina! Nina, remember Don Juan!" Nina raised herself. Humble, but full of self-respect, she said with glowing cheek-"I remember it, Edla! and with abhorrence for the weak creature that I then was: I remember that man only the more inwardly to love and to admire Edward Hervey." "Edward Hervey !" exclaimed Edla with a cry of horror; "Edward Hervey then is his name? Thus then it is true. O my God! unfortunate, deceived sister!" Nina looked on her sister with calm selfpossession. Nina," continued Edla, "when I tell you that the man whom you love is an unworthy person; that he has deceived you; that his amiability is only the glistening cloak of a false soul; his goodness, sensual weakness; that he deceived his friend and benefactor, whose sister he seduced, and whose death he occasioned; that he has violated the most sacred duties,-will you then still love him ?" Edla," replied Nina, "I know that a gloomy mystery rests upon his life; I know that a charge has been made against him of which he is not guilty. He will be able some time to justify himself; but should he not be able to do so, still he is innocent! I know it-he is innocent!" "And now," said Edla at length, "I have a prayer to you. Come into the castle with me, and I have much to say to you, and-I expect this evening still a visit; it has reference particularly to you, and it will not surprise you, Nina. Count Ludwig followed my steps. A year is passed since you separated. Nina, I bring you your father's blessing upon your approaching union. In the clear moments which he had before his death he spoke only of your marriage with Count Ludwig, and sent to his darling the prayer to make the noblest of men happy. Come, Nina, our mother will allow us "And if I produced a witness," said Edla,.. to pass this first evening alone with each other" of that which I tell you, and you will not be-come, that I may lay your hand in that of the lieve? If Count Ludwig were the friend whom most excellent of men." he deceived, and whose sister he made unfortunate Nina knew no dissimulation, and it would have been impossible to her to have been false to Edla. Prudence would, it is true, have counselled her to have deferred the dreaded acknowledgment; but the surprise, her customary candor, and an inward impulse of heart to be open toward her sister, accelerated the dangerous declaration. "Edla!-Edla!" stammered Nina trembling, and with pale lips, "I cannot follow you now!" Edla also now turned pale, and laid her hand violently on her breast, as if she would stifle a pain which was there. Yet she collected herself, and spoke with almost beseeching voice. "And why not now? Why not now? Ah! this now I have so long looked for so long expected! I have so rejoiced myself over this NOW, in which I should again see my Nina, the child of my heart-in which I should find her willing to follow me, and to fulfil the last prayer of our father! Why not now?" "Notwithstanding, I would not believe it," cried Nina. "Neither him nor any man would I believe who told me what was bad of Edward Hervey. I will pledge my life for his innocence." Edla saw Nina's violent agitation of mind. She compelled herself to be calm, seized the v hand of her sister, and drew her gently beside her on the turf seat. "Listen to me calmly, my Nina," prayed she; "let your feeling, your own sense decide between us. I confess that your union with Count Ludwig was one of my favorite ideas. I have known him from his youth, and have never seen him other than noble, upright, and firm. It appeared to me that he was the most proper support for you; it appeared to me that you were pre-eminently made to beautify his life, and to moderate and soften the stern material of his character. I saw you pass through life happy and virtuous. Aht L Jo saw more than that. O Nina! I had such no combat, no longing; I need not now have beautiful dreams. I must tell you. I saw stood before you to beg from you my own hapCount Ludwig made gentle and happy by you, piness. Oh! if you will not extinguish for ever and his beneficent influence widely diffused the light of earth which you re-awoke on that around. I saw-ah, it was a blessed night!-night-if you will not make cold the heart which through your united activity, much good brought your love then warmed-Edla, oh give me life. about, much light arise for our country. It anew condemn not my love-bless him whom seemed to me as if I saw humanity advanced I love-sever us not-sever us not! by you, supported and assisted by you in their demands for happiness and right. I hoped to hear the blessings of the world pronounced upon you-to see the mercy of heaven beam around your beloved head. Tell me, Nina, has such a life, such an activity, no worth for you? Is the time past in which your heart beat warmly for it? Is your own little happiness more dear to you than the well-being of humanity?" "Oh no, no!" cried Nina with tears; "but Edla-" "You say," continued Nina, speaking more calmly, that he has violated sacred duties. Edla, that is slander. It is possible that he never may be able to free himself from the shadow which an incomprehensible fate has thrown over his pure life. He himself has prepared me for this. It may be. What matters that, my Edla? God sees the heart; and human life is not so long. I will share his fate; I will help to bear his shame, if shame can rest on his head. Life, death, care, want, all are dear to me by his side. A higher power has for ever united our souls. Part us not from each other, Edla." Edla's tears flowed. "So much love," said she, half aloud to herself, “and that for a de "He is no deceiver!" asserted Nina with the deepest conviction. "So surely as I believe on the eternal goodness and truth of God, so surely believe I on Hervey, his noblest work. If he be a criminal in your eyes, reject me also. Edla, am I so deeply sunk in your opinion, that you have no longer confidence in me? Edla, accept me as the pledge of his innocence !" "Listen to me further," interrupted Edla, "I shave yet much to say to you. Then I will listen to you. Nina! with these thoughts, with these long-cherished dear hopes, I come now back. Count Ludwig has, by the blessing of your fa-ceiver!" ther, still juster pretensions to you; and you, Nina, you now step back. All these reasons are nothing to you. You love another. Your own satisfaction, the accomplishment of your own wishes, are all you think of. Everything else is nothing, Nina. If it only come to the giving up of my own dearest wishes-to the sacrificing the joy and hope of my life for your happiness-if this happiness could only last-the man whom you love were worthy of you then I would not ask whether he be of humble birth, whether his sphere of action be narrow and unknown; the shed small and hidden in which the flower whose beauty enchanted my heart has withdrawn from the eye of the world-for every where will it diffuse its heavenly fragrance-yes, Nina, the deepest wishes of my heart, my life itself, would I sacrifice for your happiness. But the man whom you love is unworthy-" "He is not!" exclaimed Nina with strong emotion. Edla, see him, hear him, become acquainted with him, before you pass judgment on him and me. Contemplate his actions, his human love; listen, how there is only one voice respecting him; inquire in the dwellings of the poor, where he is an angel of love and compassion. Ah, Edla! my soul was without strength, my life without value, till I knew him. Through him have I gained courage and will to act. Everything which you taught me, Edla, to love and to admire, all that love I and admire in him. Part us not, Edla! My father would not have parted us had he known Hervey. Become acquainted with him, and you yourself will love and trust him. Still no sacred oath binds us. You alone shall decide our fate; such are my wishes, such are his. Sever not the flower from the stem, from its root. Hervey is my stem, my root; separated from him my life would consume, would waste away. With Count Ludwig-O Edla, do not deceive yourself!-I should never have fulfilled your expectations. Without love, without happiness, I should be only feeble and helpless as was; I should dream away my life. Listen to me, Edla! Let me pray you let me move you. Sever us not from each other; or I might say, Why did you place your self between me and death, as he would have laid me in my early grave? I should then never have experienced the weariness of existence, the heaven of life and love; I should have known Edla turned away her face, covered her eyes with her hands, and said with a deep pain, "I do not believe you! Pitiable one! you love an unworthy man!" Only injustice against Hervey could have wrought up Nina's beautiful spirit to rebellion to her sister. Her heart felt at this moment the deepest bitterness, and she turned violently away from Edla. "You despise me, then,” said she quite with desperation, but outward calmness, "you reject me! Well, then, I will flee to a breast that will not do so. Edla! I see now that which I suspected-you never loved me; and that I henceforth which I never considered possible shall be able to live without your esteem." She rose and was about to go. With an outbreak of violence, such as Nina had never before seen in her sister, Edla exclaimed, "You know not what you say, nor what you do! Passion blinds you! I must save you. against your will! Follow me!" She seized Nina's hand with the commanding look and the assured bearing which earlier had so much power over the tender child. Now Nina also felt herself incapable of withstanding her. A shudder went through her; she fancied she heard Count Ludwig approaching, she saw Edla place her hand in his; she tottered, her eyes closed, and she would inevitably have fallen to the ground had not the Countess, who at this moment came up, caught her in her arms. Nina withdrew her hand from Edla, threw herself on the neck of the Countess, and feebly whispered, "Do not leave me!" Edla heard these words. An unspeakable sorrow passed through her soul. She saw herself deserted, mistaken, feared by the being who she loved most tenderly on earth; saw this being hanging even over the brink of an abyss. Violent emotions of pain and envy went through Edla's heart as she saw Nina and the deavored to recall the half fainting girl to consciousness. Countess, who with the tenderest caresses en- | fiery trial of time and temptation. Had not Nina's heart turned itself from her? Life looked at her from out of that dark night like a pale image of deceit, and the features of its countenance expressed only pain. Edla softly approached, and taking Nina's hand, besought with a mournful voice, "Nina, my sister, follow me!' "No! no!" was Nina's short answer, as she withdrew her hand. "Let her be quiet! let her stay this night quietly with me," said the Countess, "to-morrow we will meet again up at the castle. She requires rest; you see, she wishes, herself, to remain with me." Are you afraid of me?" asked Edla, as she looked searchingly into Nina's face. Nina made no reply. She pressed her pale countenance to the breast of the Countess, and perhaps did not hear Edla's question. Edla, however, heard in this silence, saw in this turning from her, a heavy answer. Silently, and with a heart sick to death, she withdrew. The Countess conducted Nina to her chamber; laid her upon her bed, gave her composing drops; and when she saw that, half stupefied, she sunk into comfortable sleep, she left her, locked her door, sent off the two maid-servants, who were in the pleasure-house, to a dance in the next village, and went to the upper story to wait for the Colonel, whom that evening she expected to see there. With slow steps Edla went to the castle. Her head was deeply bowed to her breast, her arms hung down powerlessly; her gait was unassured, her whole being had not its accustomed bearing her heart was violently torn. Poor Edla! But Edla could think and feel thus only for a moment. In her breast, strength had only a short ebb. With the force of her will, with the light of her reason, she soon called back the stream, and her soul moved in its accustomed element. The words of the wise, the actions of the good, arose like bright constellations in her memory. She thought upon the transitoriness of life; on the Resurrection; on firmness of faith; she tried her own heart-a tear fell upon its wounds-and she was calm. Yet once more she let her glance pass over subjected nations and suffering humanity-over the shipwrecks of body and soul. She sunk herself into the sorrows of earth-she understood them all, pressed her hands tight upon her breast, and as if for every single one, pronounced with fervency the words, "Believe! Endure!" And, as with this she raised her glance to heaven, behold! the clouds parted themselves directly over her head, and several stars gleamed forth like friendly eyes. Edla felt herself animated and strengthened. She stood looking upward, till the clouds again covered the stars. Then she went to arrange several things for the arrival of Count Ludwig, and never had her heart been more tranquil, her words and looks more kind. When she returned to her chamber, she seated herself with a consoled mind, and listened to the ever increasing storm, to the heavy rain which lashed the window panes, and to the fearful roaring of the sea. Brightly burned the waxlights on the table, though the flames were wafted to and fro; deep sorrow and a high joy dwelt at the same time in her bosom. She took her pen and wrote: A moist wind whistled through the trees, then was the air as still as death. Large rain-drops fell heavily at long intervals. Behind her was heard the dull roaring of the sea. Edla slowly ascended the hill. The cricket sang, and the glowworm shone in the grass, but Edla observed "Is the little happiness of an individual worth it not. Her way seemed long and difficult. Ar- speaking of in infinite life? Human happirived in her chamber, she found the air unbeara-ness! Hence with it! The greatest, the most bly oppressive; she opened the window, looked into the wide country, and breathed with difficulty. virtuous, have worn crowns of thorns! "To develope oneself, to protect oneself, for a higher light, for a higher strength. Yes! to comprehend the spirit of life-to endeavor to obtain it? That one must do. Deep obscurity was round about. The sea was dark and stormy. Heavy, black-gray, shapeless clouds passed over the sky; a blood-red "She shrinks before combat and trouble. Yes! stripe only edged the horizon, but even this rap- It is difficult, I know it well, and she is yet idly sank into deep night. Black darkness cov-young and weak; but my arm shall support her; ered the whole country, and a wild spirit seemed, with invisible, mischief-bearing wings, to hover over all. shall combat for her. She shall not sink. With bleeding breast will I carry her, till my latest strength gives way. She shall not belong to Edla stood long and contemplated the night- him; no, never! Her heart will bleed; what world, which at this moment was a true image matters that? Such blood-baths are strengthenof her inward feeling. A painful sense of weari-ing. Mine will yet bleed stronger for her. O ness and bitterness-those companions of her that I could alone suffer and endure for her! how youth-fell upon her heart. She bethought her- happy should I be !" self how the lives of so many people pass on without joy: she thought upon the long nights of the troubled and the uncomforted. The deep night of long centuries passed over her soul, in which lived whole nations, whose lives were a night-wandering-whose sun only a blood-red ray, whose repose only the hush of the storm. She glanced upward to heaven, yet not one star was to be seen; all was veiled in blackness. She thought on Nina; her heart bled, and her soul was "troubled even to death." It seemed to her as if there were nothing good, nothing lovely, nothing constant in life; that no friendship, no love was capable of withstanding the "To be solitary-to be alone-to be loved by no one-to be necessary to the happiness of no one to hear no sigh, to see no tear in our last hour! Why does this thought appear so terrible, so appalling to most people? The lonely are afraid of themselves. "To be alone? Had we never inwardly loved-never given our hearts to another-then methinks, with the thoughts directed to the wonders and mysteries of creation, it would not be hard to pass lonely and alone through the world; adoring only the Eternal and Alone One who dwells above the stars; who is the origin of all thought, the unfolder of all mysteries and, of all enigmas-then methinks it would not be hard to pass lonely and alone through the world. But from the moment in which one person loves another exclusively, he needs mutual love-or he feels life to be barren and empty-and this is a mournful weakness!" "Man must endure pain and emptiness. They cease. To know this, to think on this, is already repose, is already strength." CHAPTER XXXIX. A NIGHT. Stars twinkling nightly, commanded Nina to drink. Nina was about to obey, yet the draught was bitter; she felt that it was the bitterness of life, and with indescribable abhorrence she thrust it from her. Edla raised Nina's head, held it firmly and fast, and compelled her to empty the cup. She felt the draught of death flow over her lips and down into her breast. A confused sound of human voices, full of lamentation and horror-a mighty rushing and cracking-now struck upon Nina's ear, and woke her from that dream of anguish yet only to new terrors. She felt the earth under her totter. A dull frightful thundering filled the air, and a furious storm raged through it. Ah, no!-it was no imagining, no dream-a cold bitter wave struck actually on Nina's lips. Terrified, she raised herself and collected her thoughts. Flowing The weary on high.—THE STAR SONG. thither. For a moment the moon burst through waters rocked her bed, and swung it hither and NINA lay on her bed. Her violently agitated the storm-lashed clouds; it showed a rocking feelings had given place to a sort of stupefaction, sea, that rushed through the broken window in and she had sank still deeper into an uneasy powerful gushes, and rose higher and higher in sleep, or rather dreaming unconsciousness. Sud-the room. The slightly built pleasure-house denly it seemed to her as if the walls and ceiling of her chamber had disappeared, and an infinite desert opened before her. In the depths Nina recalled to mind the sudden floods* with rocked the limitless sea, and a great black cloud which she had heard this country was often vishung heavily over a desolate country. A terrific ited, and comprehended at once the greatness form, with the aspect of an angry god, lay re- of the danger. She collected all her powers in posing upon the cloud, and scattered abroad wild order to think what was best to do. Hastily she lightning. His eyes directed themselves to Nina, arose, and endeavored through the water to reach and his lips spoke the agitating words-"Re- the door; but she found it locked. She cried for nounce thy love! Renounce joy, and every hap-help, but could not hope, in the general confusion, piness! Renounce thy beloved!" seemed about to fall, and from all sides despairing cries for help were heard. that she should be heard. Holding then by the It appeared to Nina as if her heart powerfully walls, she endeavored to reach the window. She raised itself in opposition, and yet an irresistible leaned far out, and saw only the ruin in its entire force compelled her to say "yes!" She heard frightfulness. Dark, powerful, and tempestuous, herself pronounce this "yes" of renunciation, the flood bore down everything; trees overturnand shuddered in her deepest soul. With that ed; swimming cattle raised with distressed cries the cloud, with the form of terror, rose higher of anguish their heads above the waves, as if and higher, and vanished at length from her eyes. they would call for help. The moon's still beam All appeared changed, and the sea was gone. rested upon the fearful scene, and showed no Upon a bald dreary height she discerned yet an- means of salvation. The flood appeared to have other form; a still, pale, advancing form. The taken all by surprise as well as Nina. As Nina's features became more and more distinct, and she cries for help were answered only by others like recognized him whom she so inwardly, so inex- her own, and as the waves rose higher and highpressibly, so above all others loved. He extend- er, she felt that death approached her. Bitterly, ed his arms toward her. The height upon which and with a shuddering distinctness, this thought, that beloved image stood seemed now firmly like a foretaste of the last hour, passed through planted, as by an invisible hand, close before her. her soul. She saw how the waters already rose The form laid his hands upon hers, and looked to her breast, and soon would stifle upon her lips long upon her with eyes full of sorrow. A smile all her cries and prayers; she thought how they of the deepest pain was round the mouth. Nina would soon wash away the tears from her eyes, cried, "O tell ine, tell me, that thou believest in and close them for ever. And no beloved hand my love! That thou forgivest me!" The ap- could clasp hers; no loving glance infuse strength parition let the hand fall from his heart, and and consolation! Nina wept: her hot tears fell Nina saw in its place only a deep and widely into the all-devouring flood. In order to preserve gaping wound, while the form still fixed upon her life as long as possible, she mounted upon her his heart-broken and inexpressibly mournful the window-ledge; here the waters reached but eyes. Nina felt that she must die. Suddenly, to her knee. She held fast by the cross woodhowever, a strong, hoping feeling penetrated her work of the window, and waited patiently in this soul; she felt the strength of love, and cried-situation, while the wind and waves played with "With my heart will I fill up the space in thy breast; with the glances of my love will I reanimate thy eyes!" She stretched forth her arms, and felt herself, as by an invisible power, raised up to her beloved. Her glance began to brighten, and her heart dissolved in rapture. With that there stepped between them a commanding figure; it was Edla! Icy coldness passed through Nina's breast, and paralyzed her limbs. She saw Edward no more. She saw only Edla close to her bed. Her eye was stern. She held a cup in her hand, out of which she her hair and her white night-dress. Nina thought on Edla. An unspeakable feeling of remorse and pain passed through her breast; she longed to kiss her hand, and in this last moment to pray for her forgiveness. She thought on Hervey; she felt how inexpressibly dear he was, and how bitter it was to part from a world in which he lived. With her angel-like face looking upward to heaven, she fervently prayed for him and for compassion upon herself. Higher still rose the waters; the waves beat * See Hülpher's Description of Nordland. hearts of those who heard them. From half-de molished cottages sounded forth grief and entreaties. Mothers held their weeping children' from the windows: Count Ludwig remained deaf to their cries. He looked with falcon eye upon his vessel; it shot securely thence over the wild flood, and the stillness of death reigned in it. with frightful force; they bathed Nina's rich and With manly strength Count Ludwig worked the oars, but the sweat of anxiety covered his pale forehead. Whenever an impediment stopped the course of the boat, he sprang up to his neck in water and made it free. With ever renewed strength he rowed onward, and saw how by degrees he approached the height on which the castle stood. There shown lights; there were heard calling, praying voices; there flowed tears of anguish. There at length he landed. CHAPTER XL. THE LAST HOUR. She observed at that moment a black speck upon the wild flood, which appeared not to be driven by the waves, but rather to govern them. Hoping and fearing, Nina followed it with her eye. It rose and sank with the waves, but always appeared again, and approached nearer and nearer. Amid the confused roaring, and the crashing of overturned houses, and cries for help and shrieks of terror, Nina thought she could now distinctly perceive the regular dash of oars; and as, foreboding death and almost beside herself, she exclaimed, "Edward-Edla!" the sound of her own name, dully, but yet distinctly, struck her ear. Anon and it sounded more plainly still. Let thought exalt us!-THORILD. "Nina-Nina!" cried a well-known, beloved voice, through the storm and night. A boat THE sun looked feebly down through gray struggled with the wild waters, and parted them clouds on the day after that terrible night. with powerful strokes. Two persons were in it. Feebly shone he upon Edla's couch, and upon In the forepart lay a female form upon her knees the features on which death had already stamped -it was Edla. Now the boat reached the win-his intelligible and inexorable "Thou art mine!" dow. Edla stretched out her arms, and caught hold on Nina. Nina tightly embraced her sister. In the next moment she lay saved upon a soft covering in the boat. Like a sheltering roof, Edla bowed herself over her. Yet for a moment paused the man who plied the oars before the house, whence despairing voices cried, "Save -save us !" "Save them!-save them!" cried Edla, without looking up, for her eyes were riveted on Nina. "Hence with us; the house is falling!" cried the man with the oars. The roof gave way-one of the loosened stones fell upon Edla's shoulder; she sank upon her side, but still remained as defence and shield bowed over Nina. Struggling against the strongly advancing waters, the conductor of the boat only succeeded, by the most desperate efforts, to push off from the falling house. Death hovered over them. "We are lost!" said he, with a hoarse voice. Edla looked up. A spar shot down from the roof, and threatened to overwhelm that light vessel. Edla sprang up, raised her uninjured arm, and offered her breast to that blind missive of death. It fell, struck her breast, but by the force of her arm was directed sideways, and fell close to the boat in the water. The force of the fall threw the waves high up together; they mixed themselves with Edla's blood. At the same moment another boat rowed past them toward the tumbling house. The voice of Baron H. was heard calmly and firmly directing the course of the boat. "Whom have you saved ?" said he in passing them. A deep silence, interrupted only by a few low words, reigned in the chamber. An old clergyman at that moment, with the silver cup in his trembling hand, withdrew from Edla's bedside. He had administered the Holy Sacrament; he had united his prayers with hers, and now stepped silently aside, because he felt that this soul needed not his consolations. At the foot of the bed stood Professor Awhom the wish again to see Edla had brought to Umenäs, and who arrived at the moment when her soul had raised its wings for flight toward the other world. With the pain of a human spirit, but with the resolve of a philosopher, contemplated he his friend. Near him, with quiet firmness, stood Count Ludwig; at the head of the bed, Clara and the sorrowful physician: both saw how a still holier calm-a still increasing clearness, diffused itself over the pain-distorted features of the sufferer. Nina was not absent. She had lain unconscious from the time when Edla's blood streamed over her till within a few minutes of the present time, and now, almost borne in the arms of the Baroness, she entered the room. Pale and tottering, beautiful and unearthly as a ghost which had left its grave, entered Nina. Her hands were folded close together; her eyes bathed in tears, her breath short and convulsive. An inward shudder shook her delicate frame; the pale lips whispered half unconsciously, "Edla! Edla!" Edla's eye beamed upon her with heavenly tranquillity, with unspeakable tenderness; and as she sank down on the bed, Edla embraced her with the uninjured arm, and laid her face close to hers. "Child of my heart! my rescued child! my darling!" whispered Edla, with the most heartfelt tones, as her lips, for the first time, kissed Nina's mouth and eyes. Now would she permit herself to do this. The deep pain of Nina's bosom burst forth at these caresses in endless tears. Ah! at this moment both sisters felt how infinitely they loved each other. Presently, how |