92 
THE SEA-SERPENT. 
that throng her, his heart is on the raging deep, 
nor dares he linger longer. So swiftly from her 
glancing eyes Love’s hurtling arrows shoot, you 
love, although your tongue denies to plead the 
tender suit. So Prince admired ; still surprise 
and sorrow kept him mute. 
hi. 
Sue Forbes, although it’s out of date to keep 
an album, kept one, from which she learned that 
cruel fate might rend all hearts except one 
heart, and that of course was hers ; that never 
should be broken, until hot Hottentots wear 
furs, or truth by beaux be spoken. 
This album then, with playful air, she gave 
at once to Prince; he took it with an ab¬ 
sent stare, that truly would convince the merest 
looker-on that he was wrapt in gloomy reverie. 
He was her brother’s truest friend, she was her 
brother’s only sister ; she begged that he would 
condescend (and how could Prince resist her ?) 
to write her something ere he sailed ; nor need 
