Are they all here,--sure ?" And the widow, though she could not read her husband's verses, looked jealously at the manuscripts written in his irregular, large scrawl, and, smoothing them carefully, replaced them in the trunk, and resettled over them some sprigs of lavender, which Leonard had unwittingly disturbed.
"But," said Leonard, as his eye again rested on the beautiful handwriting of his lost aunt,--"but you called her Nora--I see she signs herself L." "Leonora was her name.

I said she was my Lady's god-child.

We call her Nora for short--" "Leonora--and I am Leonard--is that how I came by the name ?" "Yes, yes; do hold your tongue, boy," sobbed poor Mrs.Fairfield; and she could not be soothed nor coaxed into continuing or renewing a subject which was evidently associated with insupportable pain..