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I asked George about this when I saw him, and he confessed with an ingenuous blush that my father's boots had hurt him, and that he had never thought of making a keepsake of them, till my father's words stimulated his invention.
Under these melancholy circumstances, I am, I think, not to blame if I hesitate to give her the locket in secret; not knowing with what associations this keepsake may be connected, or of what serious agitation it may not possibly be the cause. "In this state of doubt I have ventured on opening the locket, and my hesitation is naturally increased.
With a key from her pocket she unlocked a drawer, and from it took hurriedly every keepsake she had had from her lover, not allowing herself to contemplate them, but laying them all at last on the ancient center-table in the middle of the room. With a twinge of regret, visible to Millard, she drew her engagement ring from her finger, and with an unsteady hand laid it softly down with the rest.
The saddest of all words is 'Good-by': I have fortitude enough to write it, and no more. God preserve and prosper you farewell! "One more request. I beg that you will not forget what you promised me, when I told you my foolish fancy about the green flag. Wherever you go, let Mary's keepsake go with you. No written answer is necessary I would rather not receive it.
"You'll kill somebody with that yet!" Mr. Stott glared at the keepsake. Aunt Lizzie scrambled back into her seat and looked composedly at the drop of blood he offered in evidence, on the corner of his handkerchief. Mr.
'There, she said, in her quick voice, 'you may go. I did many other patterns for the family, but poor lady! she never saw me again. She had an illness and lost her eyesight. She was stone blind for many years. I have the keepsake yet. It is put away in the hair-trunk." The sisters were all in full sympathy, as usual.
And, perhaps unconsciously, Anne looked down on a ring plain, not unlike a childish keepsake which she always wore on the wedding-finger of her left hand. Major Harper sighed, not one of his sentimental sighs, but one from the deeps of his heart. A smile, hollow and sad, followed it. "I suppose it is idle talking now, but but you were my first-love, Anne!
The expenditure which the spirited proprietors lavished on this magnificent volume, is understood to have been not less than from ten to twelve thousand pounds sterling! The Keepsake for 1828 included, however, only three of these little prose tales of which the first in order was that entitled "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror."
And if you ever hear of Nina Rossi, will you ask her to to take some of the things in a box you'll find on the top of the piano they all belonged to her if she won't take them all back, she must take some as a as a keepsake. She ought to do that. Perhaps she won't think I treated her so badly when it's all over " He lay back exhausted with this effort.
Perhaps not, it was so good; but if I had wanted it for a keepsake, I could have kept it, sealed as it was, for years and years, and it would have been just as sweet and fresh as when it was given to me. Suppose, instead of keeping it in its bottle, I had poured it out into a glass. Can you tell me what would have happened to it then?
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