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CHAPTER XV. CONCERNING PROPOSITIONS. T is delightful to awake with that feeling which thrills one to the finger tips, as it thrilled Julian Charlton when he opened his eyes in his bunk on the port side of the Carnarvon Castle—the feeling that one has one’s love returned. Sometimes this feeling prevents one from closing one’s eyes at night. In sucha case the pleasure of awaking with a consciousness of being thrilled by that feeling is lost. : He did not hurry on deck, as he had .frequently done on other mornings, when he regarded as wasted every moment spent apart from Bertha. When he found himself by her side and the side of her aunt, he saw that Bertha’s face was roseate. Her lips were particularly brilliant. Could it be that the dye of that fervent kiss of his had remained upon her lips, and her face, he wondered. Mrs. Hardy looked at him and smiled. Then she looked at Bertha and smiled again. Could it be that Bertha had during the night informed her aunt that her soul had been successful in its search after its long parted sister soul ? If she had done so Mrs. Hardy was clearly ready to offer him her warm congratulations—the congratulations of a mother in Philistia. He shrank from such a tribute to his success in wooing. He felt that the acknowledgment that any success had been achieved by him had a tendency to diminish the mystic element which undoubtedly entered largely into the love existing between himself and Bertha. The Roman braves 93 CONMNIELIOOKS (E(0)