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Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean -- / Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, / In looking on the happy autumn fields, / And thinking of the days that are no more. / TENNYSON. -- _The Princess._
A restless, agitated night was it for the four lovers. Julius sat up packing. He had informed his mother of his rejection; and she, doating as she did on her son, was highly indignant at Rose's "unfeeling coquetry, which she never could have believed her guilty of. " Espousing his cause with a vehemence which somewhat hurt him, she readily agreed to his proposal of their both leaving the Grange forthwith, and spending the winter in Italy.