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Julia.

“There now, you hear! we should probably have suited one another in the end;

you may still repent it.”

Lucidor.

“But now, dear sister-in-law — ”

Julia.

“Just so! — ’dear,’ now that you have got rid of me.”

Lucidor.

“Only a word more. There rests a heavy responsibility upon you; what was the

meaning  of  that  pressing  of  my  hand,  when  you  knew  and  must  have  felt  my

awful position? Anything so thoroughly wicked I have never yet known in this

world.”

Julia.

“Thank God, if that were expiated, all would be forgiven! I did not want you it

is  true;  but,  that  you  would  have  nothing  to  do  with  me,  is  a  thing  that  no  girl

forgives,  and  that  pressure  of  the  hand,  you  see,  was  for  the  wretch.  I  confess

that it was more villanous than was right, and I only forgive myself in forgiving

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you, and so let all be forgiven and forgotten! Here is my hand.”

He  accepted  it,  and  exclaimed:  “Here  we  are  back  again  already  —  already

back in our park; and so you will probably soon have made the round of the wide

world and perhaps back: we shall meet again.”

They  had  already  arrived  before  the  garden  saloon.  It  seemed  empty;  the

company,  discontented  at  seeing  dinner-time  so  long  delayed,  had  set  out  for  a

walk,  but  Antony  and  Lucinda  came  forward.  Julia  threw  herself  out  of  the

carriage towards her friend, she thanked him with a cordial embrace, and did not

refrain  from  tears  of  deepest  joy.  The  cheeks  of  the  noble  man  reddened,  his

features expanded themselves, his eye looked bedimmed, and from beneath this

outward form shone forth a handsome striking youth.

And thus the two couples proceeded towards the company, with feelings that

the loveliest dream could not bestow.

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