. Yours with all my heart : her own story, as told by the beautiful Italian gazelle-hound Fairy . I went right away, before we hadtea, and took the sweet flowers to a greatbuilding. Here she was met by some gen-tle-faced women in plain black garb, withwhite bonnets, whom she called faces beamed with grateful pleasurewhen they saw the Easter gift, and they saidthey would divide the sweet blossoms amongtheir poor sick people, shut away from thebright world and laid on beds of pain, tocheer and comfort them. Mamma only saved out enough for eachone of us to have a buttonhole bouquet
. Yours with all my heart : her own story, as told by the beautiful Italian gazelle-hound Fairy . I went right away, before we hadtea, and took the sweet flowers to a greatbuilding. Here she was met by some gen-tle-faced women in plain black garb, withwhite bonnets, whom she called faces beamed with grateful pleasurewhen they saw the Easter gift, and they saidthey would divide the sweet blossoms amongtheir poor sick people, shut away from thebright world and laid on beds of pain, tocheer and comfort them. Mamma only saved out enough for eachone of us to have a buttonhole bouquet towear to church that next bright Eastermorning. I couldnt go, though I lookedso wistfully at mamma and aunt Mary. I 205 YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART could hear the sweet bells calling, and seethe white doves flying in and out their seatsin the great high belfry tower, but I had nowings to fly so high, so I waited sorrowfullyat home. Still I was comforted by havinga nosegay of the pearly pink blossoms tiedin my broad, blue satin bow when I rodeout in the park, behind Don and Dora, inthe 206 CHAPTER XIII Is it all lost in nothingness, Such gladness, love and hope, and trust ?Such busy thoughts, our own to guess, All trampled into common dust ? ELIZABETH CHARLES. ONE week more, and we all startedback to our lovely island for thesummer. I rode all the way be-hind Don and Dora, who were as glad as Ithat we were going to our dearest home, andhad such a glorious time. The roadsideswere a soft bright green, all spangled overwith golden dandelions, and as we nearedthe shore the ground was fairly blue withthe lovely great birds-foot violets with theirpansy eyes. How swiftly the spring and summer spedaway! I pattered around with mammawhile she wTorked with the man, fixing theflower-beds and vases, and with papa wrhenhe uncovered the lovely lily-ponds andstarted up the fountains. When the home 207 YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART was all in order, and the roses were bloom-ing, then he could
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