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SEPTEMBER 6.

It cost me much to part with the blue coat which I wore the first time I danced

with Charlotte. But I could not possibly wear it any longer. But I have ordered a

new  one,  precisely  similar,  even  to  the  collar  and  sleeves,  as  well  as  a  new

waistcoat and pantaloons.

But it does not produce the same effect upon me. I know not how it is, but I

hope in time I shall like it better.

SEPTEMBER 12.

She has been absent for some days. She went to meet Albert. To-day I visited

her: she rose to receive me, and I kissed her hand most tenderly.

A  canary  at  the  moment  flew  from  a  mirror,  and  settled  upon  her  shoulder.

“Here is a new friend,” she observed, while she made him perch upon her hand:

“he is a present for the children. What a dear he is! Look at him! When I feed

him,  he  flutters  with  his  wings,  and  pecks  so  nicely.  He  kisses  me,  too,  only

look!”

She  held  the  bird  to  her  mouth;  and  he  pressed  her  sweet  lips  with  so  much

fervour that he seemed to feel the excess of bliss which he enjoyed.

“He shall kiss you too,” she added; and then she held the bird toward me. His

little beak moved from her mouth to mine, and the delightful sensation seemed

like the forerunner of the sweetest bliss.

“A kiss,” I observed, “does not seem to satisfy him: he wishes for food, and

seems disappointed by these unsatisfactory endearments.”

“But  he  eats  out  of  my  mouth,”  she  continued,  and  extended  her  lips  to  him

containing seed; and she smiled with all the charm of a being who has allowed

an innocent participation of her love.

I  turned  my  face  away.  She  should  not  act  thus.  She  ought  not  to  excite  my

imagination  with  such  displays  of  heavenly  innocence  and  happiness,  nor

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awaken my heart from its slumbers, in which it dreams of the worthlessness of

life! And why not? Because she knows how much I love her.