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1Author:  Flint Timothy 1780-1840Add
 Title:  The life and adventures of Arthur Clenning, in two volumes  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 
 Description: Here would be the place to transcribe some of the incidents of that period, well known by the cant but significant name, “honey-moon.” Theocritus must lend his pastoral pencil, and St. Pierre his unrivalled powers of singing the rural life of love in the shades of such a retirement, to do ordinary justice to the history of their enjoyments. In days of enjoyment like theirs, the youthful imagination peoples all that surrounds them, with beings who sympathize with them in their felicity. It is true, though they were in the midst of a nature no less pleasant than formerly, they saw it not with the same eyes; for they were more intently occupied with each other. The want of the society of others of their kind was hardly perceived by them, who possessed in each other Whatever fancy forms of good and fair, Or lavish hearts could wish. The poor birds fluttered, shook their wings, and sung, and croaked with the joy of welcome, when they came forth, as formerly. But their fair mistress, though she saw them fed, as formerly, had almost forgotten to caress them. The lessons of Rescue came to a dead pause for a while, though she showed great shrewdness and penetration, using her eyes and senses to the utmost advantage. She often surprised them with proofs of her native sagacity, and self-taught proficiency. She saw the two happy beings, with whom she lived, at first, it may be, with some natural sensations of envy. But she never failed to evince, that from the first, she had felt all the ties and obligations of gratitude. Daily conversant with two beings, as amiable as they were happy, she soon added the ties of daily intercourse and affection to her first obligations. She appeared to love them with the earnest and simple affection of a child. Their will was a law, and their thoughts the measure of what was right. She saw them obliging, kind, and affectionate, in every word, look, and action; and this view will more readily inspire homage in the bosom of a person in a condition like hers, than to see the parties possessing and exercising the power of life and death. Each day brought to each of the three a new succession of pleasures.
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