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marry Sophy; who was nothing at all to look at。 〃He's gone to the very
extreme;〃 said mamma…in…law; 〃he has gone from the most beautiful to
the ugliest; and he has forgotten his first wife。 Men have no
constancy。 My husband was a very different man;… but then he died
before me。〃
〃'Pygmalion loved his Galatea;' was in the song they sung at my
first wedding;〃 said Alfred; 〃I once fell in love with a beautiful
statue; which awoke to life in my arms; but the kindred soul; which is
a gift from heaven; the angel who can feel and sympathize with and
elevate us; I have not found and won till now。 You came; Sophy; not in
the glory of outward beauty; though you are even fairer than is
necessary。 The chief thing still remains。 You came to teach the
sculptor that his work is but dust and clay only; an outward form made
of a material that decays; and that what we should seek to obtain is
the ethereal essence of mind and spirit。 Poor Kaela! our life was
but as a meeting by the way…side; in yonder world; where we shall know
each other from a union of mind; we shall be but mere acquaintances。〃
〃That was not a loving speech;〃 said Sophy; 〃nor spoken like a
Christian。 In a future state; where there is neither marrying nor
giving in marriage; but where; as you say; souls are attracted to each
other by sympathy; there everything beautiful develops itself; and
is raised to a higher state of existence: her soul will acquire such
completeness that it may harmonize with yours; even more than mine;
and you will then once more utter your first rapturous exclamation
of your love; 'Beautiful; most beautiful!'〃
THE END
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