It was a blessed relief from
type-written legal business letters. So she responded in the lines of
Lamartine:--
Mon coeur a ce reveil du jour que Dieu renvoie,
Vers un ciel qui sourit s'eleve sar sa joie,
Et de ces dons nouveaux rendant grace au Seigneur,
Murmure en s'eveillant son hymne interieur,
Demande un jour de paix, de bonheur, d'innocence,
Un jour qui pese entier dans la sainte balance,
Quand la main qui les pese a ses poids infinis
Retranchera du temps ceux qu'il n'a pas benis!
By this it will appear that the two were admirably suited to each other,
finding in their companion peculiar excellences they might have vainly
sought among a thousand on Canadian soil. "This is a morning of
unalloyed happiness, Farquhar," remarked Miss Du Plessis in prose, and,
in the same humble style of composition, he answered: "Thank God,
Cecile! Think what it might have been had the worst happened to poor
Corry!"
"As it is," replied that lady, archly, "the worst has turned out for the
best."
"As it was with me," the dominie humbly responded, and relapsed into
silence.
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