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There were portraits in miniature of the courtiers and the ladies of the Great Reign on the very ewers and basins. On the flounced dressing-table, with its antique glass and a diminutive patch-box, now the receptacle of Lubin's powder, a sprig of the lovely Rose The was exhaling a faint, far-away century perfume.

I have it. You think that at Lady Fauntleroy's ball I devoted myself too much to my family, and too little to 'Not at all! cried Rose hastily, adding, with charming incoherence, while she twisted a sprig of honeysuckle in hex restless fingers, 'Some cousins of course are pretty.

She died in a time of promise.... But it is God's will, and the place where she has gone is better than that which she has left." It could have been hardly daylight on the moors the morning when Charlotte went out to find that last solitary sprig of heather which she laid on Emily's pillow for Emily to see when she awoke. Emily's eyes were so drowsed with death that she could not see it.

Elinor, mounted on a footstool, was intent on arranging a sprig of clematis to the best advantage, in the beautiful dark hair of her cousin Jane Graham, who was standing for that purpose before a mirror. A good-looking youth, whom we introduce without farther ceremony as Harry Hazlehurst, was watching the chess-players with some interest.

'It was an odd, affectionate animal, said Father Piret, dropping unconsciously into a French idiom to express his meaning. 'The little sprig had been kept as a talisman, and no saintly relic was ever more honored; the Emperor had touched it! 'Grenadier Jacques made one of the ill-fated Russian army, and, although wounded and suffering, he still endured until the capture of Paris.

There was an indefinable atmosphere of goodness about her; I felt as if I were breathing sincerity and frank innocence. It was refreshing to my lungs. Poor innocent child, she had faith in something; there was a crucifix and a sprig or two of green box above her poor little painted wooden bedstead; I felt touched, or somewhat inclined that way.

Only some unskilful hand, probably Master Odam's under his wife's teaching, had carved a rude L., and a ruder D., upon a large pebble from the beach, and set it up as a headstone. I gathered a little grass for Lorna and a sprig of the weeping-tree, and then returned to the Forest Cat, as Benita's lonely inn was called.

"I've kept the little sprig you gave me," he added, apparently by way of a casual after-thought. "Have you?" Silence fell again and not another word passed between them save a gentle "Good-night" when, the New Year having fully come in, they parted. The dreariest season of the year had now set in, but frost and cold were very seldom felt severely in Weircombe.

"We have come to demand certified copies of all entries and receipts of this office covering the trunk in question," announced the young sprig of the law. "Well?" interrogated Bart. "Your employee assistant? here, declined to act without your authority." "Quite right. I give it, though. Darry, make out transcripts of the records. That is all clear and regular."

It was dainty, delicate, and suggestive. One picture attracted me the moment my eyes fell upon it; it was one of the most carefully executed, and it represented the Holly Sprig Inn. "You recognize that!" said Miss Willoughby, evidently pleased. "You see that light-colored spot in the portico? That's Mrs. Chester; she stood there when I was making the drawing.