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Show Do Hearts Really Break? Then again do hearts really break? always in the metaphysical meaning. Is the shock ever so violent and permanent that life loses forever after a considerable portion of the comfort and happiness it formerly had? Does not the deceived friend, when the frenzy of the first twenty-four twenty-four hours is over, soon recover from his disillusion and not only conduct his business as tliough nothing important had happened, but eat with undiminished appotito and sleep drcamlessly aud wellV Does Werthor, eveu if ho abstains from suicide, always livo on with a heart which simply performs its muscular duty, in a manner more or less impaired, to bo sure, but which never more beats to passion, becanso passion can never more be felt? Are there uot Oamillcs who forget their Armaiids as the conquer their consumption consump-tion and settle down into unremorseful and demi-respeclable middle age? Do immeasurable disappointments always al-ways make existence a desert? Is there not such a thing as forgclfulncssof acute miseries Instead oi" memorizing them into chronic griefs Does not tho expectant treatment often cure the most bruised and bleeding soul expectancy that still looks for happiness botli in this world and the world to come? Is there uo true philosophy in that vulgar maxim which reminds us there arc as good tish in tho sea as over wore taken out? Can it be possible that any two souls, in spite of vast divergences, aro so made for each other that when sundered by imperative fate neither again can ever find a twin? "A. E. L." In Lome Journal. |