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me and placed by my side an interesting clergyman,
Dr. F. L. Hawks, who during dinner explained to me,
with his beautiful voice and in his lucid, excellent
manner, his ideas regarding the remains in Central
America, and his hypothesis of the union of the
two continents of America and Asia in a very remote
age. It was interesting to hear him, and it would be
interesting for me to see and hear more of this man,
whose character and manner attract me.
When at night I went home with Anne Lynch, the air was
delightful, and the walk through this night air and
in the quiet streets--the highways here are broad and
as smooth as a house floor--very agreeable. The starry
heavens, God’s city, formed a canopy with streets and
groups of glittering dwellings in quiet grandeur and
silence above us. And here in that quiet, starlight
night, Anne Lynch unfolded her soul to me, and I saw
an earnest and profound depth, bright with stars,
such as I scarcely expected in this gay being, who,
butterfly-like, flutters through the life of society
as in her proper element. I had always thought her
uncommonly pleasant, and admired the ability with
which, without affluence, by her own talents and
personal attainments, she had made for herself and
for her estimable mother an independence, and by
which she had become the center of the
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