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    d&ys came / for I heard you s&y that you liked it , and I hare sefeti yttu ! o 6 k dewn into the flowers and smile ; and now I hate bteeil to the wood to gather it , and have run all the way back that it might not wither ; and now will you have it V and he added in ft lower voice , ' some day will you sing the song again you once sung to us in school , about the fairies who went to sleep in the cowslip bells and rode upon a bat ' s back V Flora ' s eyes glistened as she nodded an assurance which satisfied the boy , and he passed on . The day went on as it had begun , in uninterrupted harm on ^ and beauty ; which seemed to wait upon the inmates of Uplands , as though its master had the wand of Prospero to summon hhh at his pleasure . The cherry feast succeeded to the feast of rofces , and the guests prepared to depart ; Lady Brandon , with eyes swelled with the many tears that had rolled over the ineffectual barriers , gave Flora an affectionate caress , pressed the hand < rf her brother without speaking , and went to her carriage , while Emma was paying her elegant congratulations on the entire success of their ' very clever and tasteful arrangements . ' Mrs . Fenton in her best manner—really her best manner , where perfect good breeding went hand in hand with a thorough heartfelt appreciation—paid the tribute due to * the most perfect festival she had ever witnessed , and with a warmth of feeling which Percy had never seen his mother show to one so much a stranger , silts kissed Flora ' s cheek , saying as she did so , * She is the first queen I ever took so great a liberty with ; she must forgive it , as she it the queen who nas made the deepest impression . '

    From that , day Percy was a frequent visitor at Brandon Hall . His mother saw him acquiring all the life and energy of manner which she had wished for him , and she trusted to his perfect openness to her , and the high feeling of filial reverence he ent ** - tained towards her , to ensure him or herself against any ultimate ( what she would have considered ) disastrous consequences . Neither Percy nor Flora had anv idea of love . The one had too

    high a reverence for love—which , thank ? to his mother ' s really pure nature , he had always regarded as a divinity to be wor * shipped rather than as a child to be trifled with—to begin , as it is emphatically termed , a flirtation ; while Flora had none of that petty desire for conquest , that excitement about every new object , which always distinguishes a second-rate nature , to make that sort of interchange anything but despicable . Accordingly they entered on their new intimacy , with , as they thought , a perfect understanding of each other ' s feelinsrs . Percv talked about his

    mother , Flora of her father , —they compared their pas * livrs , the different books they had read ; found themselves meeting- in favourite passages in Shakspeare , in favourite engravings , in favourite flowers , favourite skies , and naturally would often meet m the s&me ^ utxmrtfe walks . W hen they became , as Flora said , like 4 brother and sister / she no longer withheld from him fcetr

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 527, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/27/