. Midsummer Eve : a fairy tale of loving and being loved . nd was coming. 198 MIDSUMMER EYE, ** The blessing and the prayer are both with her, now and lor e\er-moro, imirraured the people. * With them both, said poor Kitty, wringing her hands. To be sure; and thats quare ; this morning they were two—a fewholy words, and they are one—for time and for eternity, he added,lifting his hat— to live together, to rise together, at the last day, nomatter where theyre buried, theyll rise together at the last! Kitty continued to talk disjointedly, for her sobs prevented her finishinga sentence; and long


. Midsummer Eve : a fairy tale of loving and being loved . nd was coming. 198 MIDSUMMER EYE, ** The blessing and the prayer are both with her, now and lor e\er-moro, imirraured the people. * With them both, said poor Kitty, wringing her hands. To be sure; and thats quare ; this morning they were two—a fewholy words, and they are one—for time and for eternity, he added,lifting his hat— to live together, to rise together, at the last day, nomatter where theyre buried, theyll rise together at the last! Kitty continued to talk disjointedly, for her sobs prevented her finishinga sentence; and long after the crowd had dispersed, and she was alone,she fancied she heard the chiming of bells and whispers among the trees,and voices repeating,— The Dovecote will be blooming then ; —whileothers murmured, MVheu? Kitty would have closed out the soundsby drawing the curtain of the lonely room ; but she saw there was a braugh about the moon; and again the chimes struck up in the oldgable, and the weathercock cicaked and moaned in the changing


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