Excerpt from The Diary of a Désennuyée

Armiue and her husband are come at last - The happiest moment I have experienced in London was that in which, for the first time these four years, I fold ed her in m arms -highly as I re ard my broth law, I shou d have been just as we pleased had Her bert allowed my first interview with my sister to be a ace-maze, but we shall meet every day for the next three months, and find plenty of op rtunities to talk over things and people whom I co d not frankly dis cuss in his presence, indeed, I was quite sufficiently taken up wit examining his wife, and noting the prog ress of time in her dear familiar face. And how dear, - how very dear, -is a familiar face, beheld after long estrangement! They may talk of returning to the scenes of our youth, - the old mansion, the well-known orchard, the favourite hawthom-hedge, - but restore to me the sunny smile, the Open countenance, the lov ing eyes of her who made those scenes delightful there is a positive ha pincas, worth worlds of poetry.

But, after all, is t 8 possible - The a ring comes with its blossoms to the old orchard, an the genial month of May brightens up the fragrant hawthorn hedge, as when first a sheet of snow-white blossoms was flung over its early verdure, while human life boasts but its single spring! After one brief summer the face and feehngs go out of bloom together, and who can bear to see the hollowing eye, the sallowing cheek, the contracting brow, we remember so bright with the impulses of youth!.

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