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The worthy souls were, I was told, inkyos; a social, or rather unsocial state, which in their case may be rendered unwidowed dowagers; since, in company with their husbands, they had renounced all their social titles and estates. Their daughters-in-law now did the domestic drudgery, while they devoted their days thus to sport.
"Could you abhor the dereliction that your soul has thus made from duty, and leave him, whom your unwidowed wishes now pursue, to seek you; then I should say that you might be happy; for penitence appeases God, and shall it not find grace with man?" "Blessed Edwin," cried she, falling on his neck, and kissing him; "whisper but my penitence to Wallace; teach him to think I hate myself.
And as for her drawing, he had hoped perhaps she might some time take a lesson Then he saw a little shiver run through her. 'Could I? she said in a low voice, turning her face away. And he perceived that the bare idea of resuming old pleasures the pleasures of her happy, her unwidowed time was still a shock to her. 'I'm sure it would help' he said, persevering.
'Still singing where the weeping willow waves'? he's on the myrtle; the myrtle, Josephine, and the crape-myrtle at that! widowhood unwidowed! Now he's on the fence but he'll not stay there, and you mustn't either!" The suitor smiled at his own ludicrousness, yet for all that looked beseechingly in earnest. He stood still again, continuing to hold her hand.
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