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William! I will neither give nor receive vows: let us both be free, and let our re-union be the cheerful, voluntary, dignified, consummation of love and virtue."
The day wore away before the scruples o my lover were vanquished: the contention was long and arduous: I suffered not my friend to quit me for a moment, distrusting the spirit for which I had so painfully struggled. Our parting was tender and mournful: my lover quitting me, and returning again and again to take a last embrace, protracted the agony of separation. The next day and the day following, wholly absorbed in grief, I was unable to quit my chamber: my benefactor, my home, ever idea but
