I'm Pining to See Newland, You Why Not?

The young man heard her with veins aglow, but in his confusion of mind, he hardly knew whether the news brought joy or pain. He had so definitely decided on the course he meant to pursue, that for the moment he could notr just his thoughts. But gradually there stole over him the delicious sense of difficulties deferred and opportunities miraculously provided. If ellen had consented to come and live with her grandmother, it must surely be because she had recognized the impossibility of giving him up. This was her answer to his final appeal of the other day: if she would not take the extreme step he had urged, she had at last yielded to measures. She couldn't have gone back