Tales Of A Traveller, By Washington Irving

















































































































 -  Why, oh, why is this budding season of life and love so
transient - why is this rosy cloud of love - Page 86
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Why, Oh, Why Is This Budding Season Of Life And Love So Transient - Why Is This Rosy Cloud Of Love That Sheds Such A Glow Over The Morning Of Our Days So Prone To Brew Up Into The Whirlwind And The Storm!

I was the first to awaken from this blissful delirium of the affections.

I had gained Bianca's heart: what was I to do with it? I had no wealth nor prospects to entitle me to her hand. Was I to take advantage of her ignorance of the world, of her confiding affection, and draw her down to my own poverty? Was this requiting the hospitality of the Count? - was this requiting the love of Bianca?

Now first I began to feel that even successful love may have its bitterness. A corroding care gathered about my heart. I moved about the palace like a guilty being. I felt as if I had abused its hospitality - as if I were a thief within its walls. I could no longer look with unembarrassed mien in the countenance of the Count. I accused myself of perfidy to him, and I thought he read it in my looks, and began to distrust and despise me. His manner had always been ostentatious and condescending, it now appeared cold and haughty. Filippo, too, became reserved and distant; or at least I suspected him to be so. Heavens! - was this mere coinage of my brain: was I to become suspicious of all the world? - a poor surmising wretch; watching looks and gestures; and torturing myself with misconstructions.

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