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"
An
age
!
And
why
this
?
"
"
I
am
called
to
my
native
country
--
Ireland
,
so
much
despised
,
as
you
already
know
.
'
Tis
only
within
the
last
twenty
hours
I
received
the
summons
.
I
obey
it
the
more
eagerly
,
that
it
tells
me
I
shall
be
able
soon
to
return
,
and
prove
to
your
proud
father
that
the
poor
horse-hunter
who
won
his
daughter
's
heart
--
have
I
won
it
,
Louise
?
"
"
Idle
questioner
!
Won
it
?
You
know
you
have
more
than
won
it
--
conquered
it
to
a
subjection
from
which
it
can
never
escape
.
Mock
me
not
,
Maurice
,
nor
my
stricken
heart
--
henceforth
,
and
for
evermore
,
your
slave
!
"
During
the
rapturous
embrace
that
followed
this
passionate
speech
,
by
which
a
high-born
and
beautiful
maiden
confessed
to
have
surrendered
herself
--
heart
,
soul
,
and
body
--
to
the
man
who
had
made
conquest
of
her
affections
,
there
was
silence
perfect
and
profound
.
The
grasshopper
amid
the
green
herbage
,
the
cicada
on
the
tree-leaf
,
the
mock-bird
on
the
top
of
the
tall
cotton-wood
,
and
the
nightjar
soaring
still
higher
in
the
moonlit
air
,
apparently
actuated
by
a
simultaneous
instinct
,
ceased
to
give
utterance
to
their
peculiar
cries
:
as
though
one
and
all
,
by
their
silence
,
designed
to
do
honour
to
the
sacred
ceremony
transpiring
in
their
presence
!
But
that
temporary
cessation
of
sounds
was
due
to
a
different
cause
.
A
footstep
grating
upon
the
gravelled
walk
of
the
garden
--
and
yet
touching
it
so
lightly
,
that
only
an
acute
ear
could
have
perceived
the
contact
--
was
the
real
cause
why
the
nocturnal
voices
had
suddenly
become
stilled
The
lovers
,
absorbed
in
the
sweet
interchange
of
a
mutual
affection
,
heard
it
not
.
They
saw
not
that
dark
shadow
,
in
the
shape
of
man
or
devil
,
flitting
among
the
flowers
;
now
standing
by
a
statue
;
now
cowering
under
cover
of
the
shrubbery
,
until
at
length
it
became
stationary
behind
the
trunk
of
a
tree
,
scarce
ten
paces
from
the
spot
where
they
were
kissing
each
other
!
Little
did
they
suspect
,
in
that
moment
of
celestial
happiness
when
all
nature
was
hushed
around
them
,
that
the
silence
was
exposing
their
passionate
speeches
,
and
the
treacherous
moon
,
at
the
same
time
,
betraying
their
excited
actions
.
That
shadowy
listener
,
crouching
guilty-like
behind
the
tree
,
was
a
witness
to
both
.
Within
easy
earshot
,
he
could
hear
every
word
--
even
the
sighs
and
soft
low
murmurings
of
their
love
;
while
under
the
silvery
light
of
the
moon
,
with
scarce
a
sprig
coming
between
,
he
could
detect
their
slightest
gestures
.
It
is
scarce
necessary
to
give
the
name
of
the
dastardly
eavesdropper
.
That
of
Cassius
Calhoun
will
have
suggested
itself
.
