. Godey's lady's book . ons, in this homeof my childhood and youth; I had alreadybegun to hold the latter in retrospect, not lessthan the former, this home to which henceforth,if my intentions were fulfilled, I must be in amanner alien—at best only an occasional visitor. Reader, yet in the morning dew of sentimentand romantic fancy, be assured that you willfoster and pursue the fire only while it pene-trates with warmth friendly and the proverbial moth, when fairly disabledin its silly flutterings, struggles instinctively SLATE PICTURES FOR CHILDREN. 179 though blindly for rele
. Godey's lady's book . ons, in this homeof my childhood and youth; I had alreadybegun to hold the latter in retrospect, not lessthan the former, this home to which henceforth,if my intentions were fulfilled, I must be in amanner alien—at best only an occasional visitor. Reader, yet in the morning dew of sentimentand romantic fancy, be assured that you willfoster and pursue the fire only while it pene-trates with warmth friendly and the proverbial moth, when fairly disabledin its silly flutterings, struggles instinctively SLATE PICTURES FOR CHILDREN. 179 though blindly for release from torture, fromthe flame clinging and consuming still. That hour of waiting was passed by me inthe needless task of restoring order to my rum-maged drawers, book-shelves, writing-desk, anything, that there should be left no space forthought or feeling ; and this not because I con-sciously willed it, but that nature, true andloyal, seeks unbidden the road to safety.(To be continued.) SLATE PICTUKES FOR CHILDREN,. 14* 180 godeys ladys book and magazine, NOVELTIES FOE AUGUST.
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