text:  As the dance moved before my eye as the music echoed round me as I glanced on the walls filled with the memories of all the gallant and the great whose names lived in the native history of hundreds of years I imagined the woman with whom I had now connected all my hopes of happiness moving in the midst of that charmed circle brilliant in all the distinctions of her birth admired for her accomplished loveliness and yet giving me the whole tribute of a noble heart grateful for the devotion of all its thoughts to her happiness