The Lady Paramount

een to gold-green,-through a thousand labyrinthine avenues and counter-avenues of leaves and branches, with broken shafts of sunlight caught in them here and there, t

) were fancied; and other birds, out of sight in the loftier regions, piped their insistent calls, or sang their tireless epithalamiums. Spiders hung in their gossamer lairs, only too tensely motionless not to seem dead; but if a gnat came-with wh

r gets so intimate with them; Nature is not so accessible and friendly." She remembered having read somewhere that such enjoyment as she was now experiencing, the enjoyment of commune with the mere sweet out-of-door thing

er reverie was

eyes seen. There are about two yards of him; and a very spruce

eminently business-like pair of brown boots. Miss Sandus (she gave you her word for it) was seventy-four;-and indeed (so are the generations linked), her father had been a middie with Nelson at Trafalgar, and a lieutenant aboard the Bellerophon during that ship's historic voyage to St. Helena;-but she confront

ived. I 've

was without a hat, so that one could see how her fine black hair grew low about her brow, and thence swept away in loose full billows, and little crinkling over-waves,

uch luggage, my dear. Boxes and bags, bags and boxes, till you could n't count them; and all of stout brown leather-so nice and manny. He looks nice and manny himself: tall, with nice manny clothes, and nice eyes, and

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's hand, and pressed

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