- Interlude
From Bertha and Lily; or, The Parsonage of Beech Glen, by Elizabeth Oakes Smith (New York: Phillips, Sampson, 1854), 282
"If I place my hands upon each side of my head, over the region of hope, and love, and ideality . . . , I fall into a soft, dreamy state. This is so delicious, that one of less integrity of life might be tempted to repeat it. I seem to float in air—my senses are cottoned upon me—faint music and exquisite odors float about me.". [End Page 49]
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