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"Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, Or thrice-great Hermes, and unsphere The spirit of Plato. " Milton. -- Il Penseroso.
As Aram assisted the beautiful Madeline into the carriage -- as he listened to her sweet voice -- as he marked the grateful expression of her soft eyes -- as he felt the slight yet warm pressure of her fairy hand, that vague sensation of delight which preludes love, for the first time, in his sterile and solitary life, agitated his breast. Lester held out his hand to him with a frank cordiality which the scholar could not resist.