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"In two little rooms my heart divides, Joy, wide awake, in one resides, While slumbering Sorrow in the other hides. Oh, Joy, sing gently in thy glee, Lest Sorrow wake through hearing thee. " HEINE.
The Lake of Como in July is only for the native born; or for banished Lilamanis, who rejoice alike in the heat and the absence of vagrant humanity. But for all Sir Lakshman's fatherly indulgence, that fortnight had seemed to the bird with one wing the longest two weeks in her life.