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She was nearer God than she had ever been before. But she did not know this might never in this world know it; she understood nothing of what was going on in her, only felt it go on; it was not love of God that was moving in her. Yet she stood in her white dress like one risen from the grave, looking in sweet bliss on a new heaven and a new earth, made new by the new opening of her eyes.
Arundell, Burton speedily became a prime favourite, and his attitude towards his daughter was Metastasio's: "Yes, love him, love him, He is deserving even of such infinite bliss;" but Mrs. Arundell, poor lady, found it hard to conquer her prejudice. Only a few weeks before her death she was heard to exclaim, "Dick Burton is no relation of mine."
Her satin-lined workbasket, with the work thrown carelessly across it, was still on the rustic table, just as she had left it when they went to the pine wood. Waiting was weary work when the bliss of a lifetime trembled in the balance; and yet he did not want to be impatient. She might find it difficult to get away from her family, perhaps.
And he said, 'Surely, O Bhanavar, my love for thee surpasseth what is told of others that have loved before us, and I count no loss a loss that is for thy sake. And he sighed, and sang: Sadder than is the moon's lost light, Lost ere the kindling of dawn, To travellers journeying on, The shutting of thy fair face from my sight. Might I look on thee in death, With bliss I would yield my breath.
Happiness appeared to him as a condition which he had achieved by a few words, by a kiss, in a minute of time, but which belonged to him so entirely now that he could never be defrauded of it again in the future. Whatever happened to him, he could never be separated from the bliss of that instant when he had held her.
Fortunately you see the sublime young woman no more. You are saved from the tortures to which a criminal passion was leading you. You fall back again into the purgatory of your married bliss; but you begin to be attentive to Madame de Fischtaminel, with whom you were dreadfully in love, without being able to get near her, while you were a bachelor.
Moreover, even as simply based upon cold-blooded calculations, the conduct of a woman who accepts the unhappiness which attends virtue and scorns the bliss which is bought by crime, is a hundred times more reasonable. Nevertheless, almost all women will risk suffering in the future and ages of anguish for the ecstasy of one half hour.
O, what bliss awaits us, when we have passed from the exterior to the interior life; a state not of worlds, but of soul, where we come into divine submission, and can say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." Mrs. Austin left the next day, and the soul-united trio were alone.
For, behold, at last his hour had come, the veil had vanished, the lips were parting, the eyelashes are raised his divinity has looked upon him and at once light as from the sun, and joy and bliss unending! He dreamed of this morrow and his soul thrilled with joy again in the melting torture of ever-growing expectation! And this expectation, this torture, hindered nothing.
The investment in the notary's practice had proven a good one, and so life held out every promise for the young couple. They were divinely happy. After a while, the bride communicated to her husband the tidings that she was expecting a child. Then it seemed to George that the cup of his earthly bliss was full.
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