All that he was talking of to-night represents what I had most share in,--the chapters which brought us most closely together.

How happy we were over them! And now, how different! 'It is curious--the animation with which he has begun to talk to Lucy Foster.

Pretty child! I like to feel that I have been the fairy god-mother, dressing her for the ball.

How little she knows what it means to be talked to by him, to receive courtesies from him,--how many women would like to be in her place.

Yet now she is not shy; she has no alarms; she treats him like an equal.