Verse 4
4. It was but a little, etc. Better, Scarcely had I passed from them, when, etc. He may have heard her voice, as she inquired, or he may now have been seeking her.
Into my mother’s house This statement, and that of my own mother’s room, suggests at once the privilege and the safety of lovers under the sanctity of such a shelter. One can but infer that the mother was in widowhood, and the story has the greater diversity from the guardianship of the brothers over their sister, its heroine.
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