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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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