. Yours with all my heart : her own story, as told by the beautiful Italian gazelle-hound Fairy . ul benediction! I was blest indeed,and my little heart swelled with proud satis-faction to think how I had helped Cupid totangle and tie the silken cords of Love. 265 CHAPTER XVII c< DIDST thou not watch for hours our track,And for the absent seem to pine, And when the well-known voice came back,What ecstacy could equal thine ? ELIZABETH CHARLES. 1 AHERE came one dark Octobernight I shall never forget. Wewere on our way again for doc-tors and aunt Marys. The wind came upoff the sea and sighed t
. Yours with all my heart : her own story, as told by the beautiful Italian gazelle-hound Fairy . ul benediction! I was blest indeed,and my little heart swelled with proud satis-faction to think how I had helped Cupid totangle and tie the silken cords of Love. 265 CHAPTER XVII c< DIDST thou not watch for hours our track,And for the absent seem to pine, And when the well-known voice came back,What ecstacy could equal thine ? ELIZABETH CHARLES. 1 AHERE came one dark Octobernight I shall never forget. Wewere on our way again for doc-tors and aunt Marys. The wind came upoff the sea and sighed through the trees,like a sad song of parting. A shadow fellover my little heart that had been so full oflove and trust all its life; a dread and fearseized upon me, I could not tell wrhy. Ifelt it when mamma held me close over herheart, and sat silently in the dark; and whenwe got to aunt Marys and the bright lampswere lighted, I still clung close around herneck with my slender arms, and would notbe put down upon the carpet, to play withold Sportum and caper around the way Ialways had She looks at me with such great pleading eyes. < - YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART They said, half whispering, How canthe little thing mistrust it ? Thats just what breaks my heart, saidmamma; she knows it already, and shelooks at me with such great pleading hasnt seen one thing to tell her; theysurely can read our very thoughts. I know they can, said aunt you can be sure, Stella, that \ve wrilldo all in our power to make her will be thinking every day that you arecoming back, and she will play with Spor-tum, and the doctor will talk to her, to helppass the time away, the same as he alwaysdoes. I shook and trembled as though I had anague chill; the terrible dread at my heart hadtaken shape mamma and papa were go-ing away to leave me! I know, now, that mamma had almost amind to give it up for days, as, with a soberface, she found me curled inside her half-packed trun
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