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"Yes, and from the Oaks, the Pines, the Laurels, Roselands, and Ashlands; and we hope they will all come." She gave him a wistful look. "Well," he said with a smile, "what is it?" "Papa, you know I 'most always have to go to bed at eight o'clock. I'd like ever so much to stay up till nine to-night, if you are willing."
Elsie, dutifully abstaining from holding any communication with Ashlands, and giving all her thoughts as far as possible to home duties and pleasures knew nothing of it till one day Enna came in, asking, "Have you heard the news?" "No," said Elsie, pausing in a game of romps with her little brother; "what is it?" "It! You should rather say they. There's more than one item of importance."
The young people at Ashlands were all out on the veranda enjoying the fresh morning air Herbert lying on a lounge with a book in his hand; Harry and Lucy seated on opposite sides of a small round table and deep in a game of chess; two little fellows of six and eight John and Archie by name were spinning a top. "There she is!
Her parents and herself, indeed the whole family, she said, had greatly regretted the falling off of their former intimacy and strongly desired to renew it; and she had come to beg Elsie to go home with her and spend a week at Ashlands in the old familiar way. Elsie's eye brightened, and her cheek flushed. "Dear Lucy, how kind!" she exclaimed; then turned inquiringly to her father.
I hear from her now and then, and we meet occasionally when I go North or she pays a visit to the old home at Ashlands." "Mrs. Ross," said Rosie half in assertion, half inquiringly. "Yes, that is her married name." "And Aunt Sophy who lives at Ashlands now, is " "The widow of Lucy's older brother Harry, and also your Grandma Rose's sister; as you all know."
He passed an almost sleepless night, and the next morning, finding himself quite unable to rise from his couch, he sent an urgent entreaty that Mr. Dinsmore would call at Ashlands at his earliest convenience. His request was granted at once, and the lad pleaded with all the eloquence of which he was master for a more favorable reception of his suit.
And greetings were scarcely exchanged with these when the families from Ashlands and the Laurels joined the circle; so that quite a large surprise party had gathered there unexpectedly to themselves as well as to their hosts. The same desire to learn the full particulars of what had reached them as little more than a vague report had brought them all.
Elsie and Horace watched them till they had passed out of sight far down the street, then returned to their employments; her thoughts now going back, not to Roselands, but to Lansdale, Ashlands, and Philadelphia; memory and imagination bringing vividly before her each scene of her past life in which Egerton had borne a part. Did any of the old love come back?
As a chemist and physicist myself, knowing something about capillary attraction, exosmose, endosmose, atmospheric pressure, and gravitation generally, and the movements caused by chemical attraction, I am afraid I must concur in the opinion that we do not yet know the real ultimate cause or causes of the rise of sap in plants. Ashlands, Watford, Herts. Prof.
"Let mammy take your hat and scarf," said Elsie. "You'll stay and spend the day with me, won't you?" "Thank you, no; I came to carry you off to Ashlands to spend a week. Will you come?" "I should like to, dearly well, if papa gives permission." "Well, run and ask him." "I can't; unfortunately he is out, and not expected to return till tea-time." "Oh, pshaw! how provoking!
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