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with merely passing by, deriving a satisfaction from the consciousness
of being nearer to her, and of gazing on the house beautified by
her presence. Besides, as his feelings became more interested, his
distrust of himself increased. The heart of the bold, young man, which
real danger had never disturbed, fluttered like a caught bird at the
voice of Faith, more and more, and he hesitated to make an avowal
which might, indeed, crown his hopes, but which might, also, dash them
to the ground. For he could not conceal from himself that Faith, so
far from giving him encouragement as a lover, had never even appeared
to suspect his feelings. Her conduct had always been the same, the
same unreserved confidence, the same frank, unconstrained deportment.
She spoke to him as freely as ever of her hopes and fears; she took
his arm as readily, nor did a blush welcome his coming or a tremor of
the voice signalize his departure.

Young ladies are usually sharp-sighted enough in detecting admiration,
and fathoming the heart of a lover, and some may think her want of
penetration strange. If so, I must entreat indulgence for my simple
Faith. Be the circumstances remembered in which she was placed and had
grown up; her child-like innocence and purity, unacquainted with
the world, her seclusion from society, the intimacy that had always
existed between her and young Bernard, which continued to make
many attentions that would have been marked in another, natural and
expected from him, and the want of all preoccupation in his favor,
and the surprise of the keen-sighted will diminish. Is not an
inexperienced and modest girl slow to suspect in another, emotions
towards herself of a kind which she has never felt?

William Bernard, then, had never told his love, nor did Miss
Armstrong dream of its existence. To her he was the dear friend of
her childhood, and nothing more. His mother and sister suspected
the condition of his heart, and it was with calm satisfaction in the
former, and a glow of delight in the latter, that they looked forward
to the time when the attentions and amiable qualities of the son and
brother should ripen the friendship of the unimpassioned beauty into
love. Of this result, with a pardonable partiality they did not doubt.
With this explanation of the feelings of the two young people towards
each other at this time, we will accompany them on a morning walk to
the Falls of the Yaupaae.

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