I answered in the affirmative; and we met by accident at
the ball. I could nut behold him without emotion: when he accosted
me, his well-known voice made my heart vibrate, like a musical
chord, when its unison is struck. All the ideas of our past love,
which the lapse of time and absence had enfeebled and lulled to
sleep, now awoke, and were reinspired by his appearance; so that
his artful excuses were easily admitted: I forgave him all that I
had suffered on his account, because he was the natural lord of my
affection; and our former correspondence was renewed.
"I thought myself in a new world of bliss in consequence of this
reconciliation, the rapture of which continued unimpaired for
the space of four months, during which time he was fonder of me,
if possible, than before; repeated his promise of marriage, if
we should ever have it in our power; assured me he had never been
happy since he left me: that he believed no woman loved like me.
And indeed, to have a notion of my passion for that man, you must
first have loved as I did. But, through a strange caprice, I broke
off the correspondence, out of apprehension that he would forsake
me again.
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