Tales Of A Traveller, By Washington Irving

















































































































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inquiry, for my heart was full to aching. I told her all the conflict
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I Could Not Evade The Inquiry, For My Heart Was Full To Aching.

I told her all the conflict of my soul; my devouring passion, my bitter self-upbraiding.

"Yes!" said I, "I am unworthy of you. I am an offcast from my family - a wanderer - a nameless, homeless wanderer, with nothing but poverty for my portion, and yet I have dared to love you - have dared to aspire to your love!"

My agitation moved her to tears; but she saw nothing in my situation so hopeless as I had depicted it. Brought up in a convent, she knew nothing of the world, its wants, its cares; - and, indeed, what woman is a worldly casuist in matters of the heart! - Nay, more - she kindled into a sweet enthusiasm when she spoke of my fortunes and myself. We had dwelt together on the works of the famous masters. I had related to her their histories; the high reputation, the influence, the magnificence to which they had attained; - the companions of princes, the favorites of kings, the pride and boast of nations. All this she applied to me. Her love saw nothing in their greatest productions that I was not able to achieve; and when I saw the lovely creature glow with fervor, and her whole countenance radiant with the visions of my glory, which seemed breaking upon her, I was snatched up for the moment into the heaven of her own imagination.

I am dwelling too long upon this part of my story; yet I cannot help Lingering over a period of my life, on which, with all its cares and conflicts, I look back with fondness; for as yet my soul was unstained by a crime.

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