. In the forest of Arden. r^^v ^ \ J be made^ and friction and worry and^^#4^ 4 fatigue to be borne, how can we really mX. ^. ^ come to know one another ? We maymeet the vicissitudes and changes sideby side; we may work together in thelong days of toil; our hearts may repose^ on a common trust, our thoughts travel7) a common road; but how rarely do we, come to the hour when the pressure ofI toil is removed, the clouds of anxietymelt into blue sky, and in the whole j^world nothing remains but the sun onthe flower, and the song in the trees,and the unclouded light of love in the ^:^^veyes? Ef^.^


. In the forest of Arden. r^^v ^ \ J be made^ and friction and worry and^^#4^ 4 fatigue to be borne, how can we really mX. ^. ^ come to know one another ? We maymeet the vicissitudes and changes sideby side; we may work together in thelong days of toil; our hearts may repose^ on a common trust, our thoughts travel7) a common road; but how rarely do we, come to the hour when the pressure ofI toil is removed, the clouds of anxietymelt into blue sky, and in the whole j^world nothing remains but the sun onthe flower, and the song in the trees,and the unclouded light of love in the ^:^^veyes? Ef^.^ I dreamed, too, that in finding Rosa- pf^lind I should also find myself. There Mt^^^i^ffwere times when I had seemed on the %S^^^^very point of making this discovery, f * ^^but something had always turned me =aside when the quest was most eagerand promising; the world pressed intothe seclusion for which I had struggled,


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