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  ...while the Captain accompanied Mr. Errol, and Wilkinson, Mr. Perrowne. They had six miles to tramp, which took them a good hour and a-half. The Captain discussed navigation in Scripture times with the minister, and decided that the Jews might have been good at punting round, but were a poor seafaring lot. The dominie and the parson were deep in the philosophy of the affections, in the course of which excursus the former quoted the words:--
Like Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought, Love gives itself; it is not bought.   Nor voice nor sound betrays Its deep, impassionated gaze.
It comes, the beautiful, the free, The crown of all humanity, In silence and alone. To seek the elected one.
Mr. Perrowne was struck with these verses, and, taking out his note book, begged that his companion would repeat them, as he recorded their sublime sentiment for future use. They then proceeded to eulogize Miss Du Plessis, of whom the parson formed a very high estimate, which...   Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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