You know, however, I have been expecting to see you these two days; and tell me frankly how do you find me looking ?" "More beautiful, a thousand times more beautiful than ever--all save in one thing, Amelie." "And that is--" "You are married." "How you jest.

But let us look back.

Do you ever think on any of our old compacts ?" Here she pulled a leaf from a rose bud in her bouquet, and kissed it.

"I wager you have forgotten that." How I should have replied to this masonic sign, God knows; but the manager fortunately entered, to assure us that the audience had kindly consented not to pull down the house, but to listen to a five act tragedy instead, in which he had to perform the principal character.

"So, then, don't wait supper, Amelie; but take care of Monsieur Meerberger till my return." Thus, once more were we left to our souvenirs, in which, whenever hard pushed myself, I regularly carried the war into the enemy's camp, by allusions to incidents, which I need not observe had never occurred.
After a thousand stories of our early loves, mingled with an occasional sigh over their fleeting character--now indulging a soft retrospect of the once happy past--now moralising on the future--Amelie and I chatted away the hours till the conclusion of the tragedy.
By this time, the hour was approaching for my departure; so, after a very tender leave-taking with my new friend and my old love, I left the theatre, and walked slowly along to the river.
"So much for early associations," thought I; "and how much better pleased are we ever to paint the past according to our own fancy, than to remember it as it really was.