It seemed to her that night that they were more beautiful than ever, as they lay in their little beds quietly slumbering.

She knelt beside them, and earnestly prayed their heavenly Father that the union which had just been consummated in the face of so many difficulties might prove a boon to them all.
"Where have you been, you runaway ?" exclaimed her husband as she re-entered the parlour.

"You stayed away so long, I began to have all sorts of frightful ideas--I thought of the 'mistletoe hung in the castle hall,' and of old oak chests, and all kind of terrible things.

I've been sitting here alone ever since the Ellises went: where have you been ?" "Oh, I've been upstairs looking at the children.

Bless their young hearts! they looked so sweet and happy--and how they grow! Clarence is getting to be quite a little man; don't you think it time, dear, that he was sent to school?
I have so much more to occupy my mind here than I had in Georgia, so many household duties to attend to, that I am unable to give that attention to his lessons which I feel is requisite.