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The Monk; a romance

CHAPTER IV
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Antonia's image was gradually effaced from his bosom; and Virginia became sole Mistress of that heart, which She well deserved to possess without a Partner.
The remaining years of Raymond and Agnes, of Lorenzo and Virginia, were happy as can be those allotted to Mortals, born to be the prey of grief, and sport of disappointment.

The exquisite sorrows with which they had been afflicted, made them think lightly of every succeeding woe.

They had felt the sharpest darts in misfortune's quiver; Those which remained appeared blunt in comparison.

Having weathered Fate's heaviest Storms, they looked calmly upon its terrors: or if ever they felt Affliction's casual gales, they seemed to them gentle as Zephyrs which breathe over summer-seas..


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