ass a week
and expected to return within two days. And she added, smiling,
"perhaps, Alonzo, we may have an opportunity once more to visit the
bower on my prospect hill, before winter entirely destroys the
remaining beauties of the summer."]

Theodore felt all the force of the remark. He recollected the
conversation when they were last at the place she mentioned; and he well
remembered his feelings on that occasion.

[_A&M_:

Alonzo felt all the force of the remark. He recollected the
conversation when they were last at the place she mentioned; and he
well remembered his feelings on that occasion.]

"Great changes, indeed," he replied, "have taken place since we were
last there;--that they are productive of unexpected and unexampled
happiness to me, is due, Alida, to yourself alone."

[_A&M_:

"Great changes, indeed, (he replied) have taken place since we were
last there; that they are productive of unexpected and unexampled
happiness to me, is due, Melissa, to you alone."]

Theodore departed next morning, appointing the next week to visit Alida
at her father's house. Thus were the obstacles removed which had
presented a barrier to their united wishes. They had not, it is true,
been separated by wide seas, unfeeling parents, nor, as yet, by the
rigorous laws of war; but vexations, doubts, and difficulties had thus
far attended them, which had now happily disappeared, and they
calculated on no unpropitious event which might thwart their future
happiness.

[_A&M_:

Thus were the obstacles removed which presented a barrier to the
united wishes of Alonzo and Melissa. They had not, it is true, been
separated by wide seas, unfeeling parents, or the rigorous laws of
war; but troubles, vexations, doubts and difficulties, had thus far
attended them, which had now disappeared, and they calculated on no
unpropitious event which might thwart their future union.]

All the hours that Theodore could spare from his studies were devoted to
Alida; and their parents began to calculate on joining their hands as
soon as his professional term of study was completed.

[_A&M_:

All the time that Alonzo could spare from his studies was devoted to
Melissa, and their parents began to calculate on joining their hands
as soon as Alonzo's professional term of study was completed.]

Hostilities that had previously commenced with England had been followed
by several battles. "The