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Dick Forbes observed the fair Miss Bell re¬ 
ceived him with some slight confusion. Ah, Love, 
thy deeds ’t were vain to tell ! — but I have 
come to this conclusion: the saddest hearts 
within thy snares are often taken unawares. 
VII. 
Next morning, Hunt went up to town, and 
with him went a jovial party ; — he only fol¬ 
lowed his renown, — his friends there gave a 
welcome hearty. And, I am told, some six 
months later, say about Christmas or New 
Year, an artiste , who knows how to cater for 
all our brilliant soirees here, was seen, one 
morn, on Beacon Street, to enter at a mansion 
splendid, where all the world, that eve, would 
greet three brides, — which twice three hun¬ 
dred men did. 44 And all went merry as a 
marriage bell ” ; but who they were ’t is yours 
to guess, for I must bid these rhymes farewell. 
Yet may I venture to transgress on patience long 
since gone, to say, that when the dark and 
