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Marian. Could you so long be absent? Robin. What a week? Was that so long? Marian. How long are lovers' weeks. Do you think, Robin, when they are asunder? Are they not pris'ners' years? --Ben Jonson.
The day passed on more lightly than Ethel could have hoped; much of it indeed was gone before she opened her eyes to greet it. Night soon closed in, and she busied herself with arrangements for the welcome of her husband. Fanny loved solitude too well herself not to believe that others shared her taste. She retired therefore when evening commenced.