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LETTER LXXXVI. From a Gentleman to a Lady on...

Portland, Maine, August 5, 1913.
Dear Maria:

I feel that language is powerless to express the boundless joy and happiness which took possession of ray breast when I perused the lines traced by your own dear hand, telling me that my suit had been accepted. Again and again I read those sweet, those entrancing words, each time with increasing transport and new- born pleasure. More than once I doubted the evidence of my senses, half believing what I saw and felt to be one of those dreams which mock the lover with delusive hopes, and spread for him a banquet which may never touch his lips.

But now that I have awakened to the reality of my good fortune, and have become assured of its positive existence, the world appears to me to be made anew, and I feel a bliss which hitherto I could not imagine mortals might taste.

To you, dear Maria, the author of this new-found joy, are due my most fervent and heart-felt acknowledgments. The felicity which you have bestowed upon me I will endeavor to return, by unceasing efforts to secure and promote your happiness. I will seek to conduct you through the devious way of life by its most pleasant and easy paths, making the burden of existence light, diminishing its cares and multiplying its joys, so that hereafter you may be enabled to look through the long vista of years, and single out the day upon which you plighted your troth to me as one of auspicious import and happy influence.

In a few days I hope to have the happiness of being by your side. Till then, adieu! And believe me, dear Maria,

Your affectionate and happy lover,

Philip D'Anson.

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