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DUTY AND INCLINATION.

lustre, fell from her beamy eyes. He kissed them away, as they chased each other down her lovely cheeks. She was his heart's best treasure, the partner of his purest pleasures. He clasped her to his bosom, recalled to mind her dying parent, and felt most forcibly the claim she held upon his protection.