Eva, or the Error A Play in Five Acts Classic Reprint

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I writhed in all the torments Of suspense Till mine habitual movement grew a start And mine habitual breathing seemed a sigh Suffice it, he returned - Straight sought me, soon Demanded and received thine Eva's hand. Since then - a year, how golden and how short! Flew - lightened by, with pleasures plumed and loves And some few months flora. What means that altered tone That hesitating accent faultering low Nay - give me all thy soul! I pray thee speak; Shut not thy lips upon thy half-told tale. Something unspoken weighs upon thy heart These last few months - have they less golden been, Less bright - less happy P eva. Hush! Too loud thou speak'st; But since - Oh! Flora! Art thou blind indeed? Hast not thyself remarked a heavy change In my beloved Montalba Hast not seen How wild, at times, his manner and his speech, And always struggling as with some deep woe? Though I have seen - and seen with sharper pain, A riot of unnatural mirth break out, E'en on the sudden, from his sterner mood The flash of funeral torches o'er the gloom! Flora. I own I have Observed his altered mien, And restlessness, and gloomier air of late; But then - thou know'st I have not dwelt in Rome For long -+and when I first arrived he seemed Most variable and strange of mood - to me I knew not he had e'er been otherwise eva Ah, yes - but day by day, I saddening mark The increase and the inroads of that restlessness'.

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