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Roberts: I am feeling so lonesome and blue here tonight all alone in my room.... Somehow my thoughts turned to you, and I could not keep the tears from my eyes as I realized that I had one friend, because you were, oh! so kind to me during my imprisonment in San Jose. Dear Mrs. Roberts, can you bring before your mind's eye this picture?

Angelique, while listening to his honeyed flatteries as he led her gaily through the ballroom, asked herself again and again, why did he carefully avoid the one topic that filled her thoughts, or spoke of it only in his mocking manner, which tortured her to madness with doubt and perplexity?

It seems incredible that our thoughts could be so unclean that we find it impossible to give to our children the information they need on these most sacred subjects, but instead we allow them to obtain their information whenever and wherever they can and in the most unclean manner.

"'Tis but a message from Verney Manor, child," said her father. "Get back to bed." "From Verney Manor!" exclaimed Betty. "Then I can send back to-night the song book and book of plays lent me by Sir Charles Carew, and which, after reading the first page, I e'en restored to their wrappings and laid aside with a good book a-top to put me in better thoughts if ever I was tempted to touch them again.

He asked these many questions and certain people obligingly stepped forward to answer these inquiries to the best of their ability. The Egyptians called them "priests" and they became the guardians of his thoughts and gained great respect in the community. They were highly learned men who were entrusted with the sacred task of keeping the written records.

But before very long, each pair quarreled and made up and quarreled and then grew indifferent, and had cynical thoughts about life. At this point, the doctor put them back with their original mates. And they met with a rush! Gave cries of recognition and joy, like faithful souls re-united.

The thundering torrent stilled their sensations: and the water, making battle against great blocks of porphyry and granite, caught their thoughts.

"So had papa when mamma died," said Betty gravely, and trying hard to understand; "but he cured himself by just living for other people, and thinking whether they were happy." "It is the only way, dear," said Aunt Barbara, "but when you are older you will know better how it has been with my poor sister." Betty said no more, but she had many thoughts.

She, however, remembered that she was still pledged to him, and determinedly brushed these thoughts aside, until she heard his footsteps inside the house, when she became possessed of a burning curiosity as to what Wyllard had to say to him, which, however, remained unsatisfied. In the meanwhile, Hawtrey entered a room where Wyllard sat awaiting him with a paper in his hand.

It may serve to give us a first impression of things, and to refresh the memories of those who, by a rather extraordinary chance, would not doubt that psychology studies our thoughts.