I've told Missis so, many the time; it's a comin' true,--we all sees it,--dear, little, blessed lamb!" Eva came tripping up the verandah steps to her father.

It was late in the afternoon, and the rays of the sun formed a kind of glory behind her, as she came forward in her white dress, with her golden hair and glowing cheeks, her eyes unnaturally bright with the slow fever that burned in her veins.
St.Clare had called her to show a statuette that he had been buying for her; but her appearance, as she came on, impressed him suddenly and painfully.

There is a kind of beauty so intense, yet so fragile, that we cannot bear to look at it.

Her father folded her suddenly in his arms, and almost forgot what he was going to tell her.
"Eva, dear, you are better now-a-days,--are you not ?" "Papa," said Eva, with sudden firmness "I've had things I wanted to say to you, a great while.

I want to say them now, before I get weaker." St.Clare trembled as Eva seated herself in his lap.