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TttE SKJUTS-BOY. 301
Amelia’s eyes filled with tears, and she felt a still warmer
sensation around hcr beating heart. " This will be my Eden,"
said shc, pressing the arm of ber lovcr-husband closer fo ber
heart.
"And mine also," replicd Borgenstierna, softly. "¥ou, Anaelia,
will be the being that will make it so."
" Oh, if I could only do so, as I wish with my whole heart !
:But shall I also be able fo fill #,p the place of that one who for-
mçrly stood near fo your heart # Cau one ever forget his first
love # Can she who follo#vs the first ont "
" De silent, dearest Ameli## ! do not t#tlk of what bas passed;
all that is now gone. hIatilda’s memory will always remain dear
fo me; and many a sigh of gratitude bave I sent to Iteaven,
where she now is, for every hour shc passed with me in pain
and joy. May she rest in pcace! I hope that a new life will
begin for me–a better and freer life#more consonant wit#h my
heart and nature? You understand me, Amclial this is much,
as if is the principal requisite for human happiness that man
and wife should know each other’s hearts mutually and clcarly,
that they never should conceal their actions, and the motives
that prompted them, as far as they relate to thcir mutual con-
nexion. Suspicion and want of confidence are oftcn created by
inattention fo a mass of trifles, svhich seem at first fo be so
însignificant that they are scarcely worth noticing, but which
soon become more important, and still worse; so that they will
cost many a sleepless night, and, perhaps, years of our lires. We,
my Amelia, will make mutual confidence our law# not the law
of duty, but of love. If must always be our desire fo look into
each other’s heart."
Amelia’s warm assurances that she coincidcd with him had fo
be postponed until a more fitting timc # for at that moment the
factor approached them. l=re came to meet his young toaster
and mistress upon their own soil.
After Borgenstierna had introduced Mr. Berg to his wife and
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