6/26 I laughed at the sight of my torn glove, for I had actually pulled off the fingers by my nervous twitches. I feared you thought me guilty of writing another poem, Mr.Regulus; what else could make you look so formidable ?" "Ah! Gabriella, let bygones be bygones. I was very harsh, very disagreeable then. I wonder you have ever forgiven me; I have never forgiven myself. I know not how it is, but it seems to me that a softening change has come over me. |