9/14 Oh, the years that I have pined for it!" "Dear father, we will make up for all those years. Oh, papa, let us not part again, never, never, not even for a day." "My child, we never will. What am I saying? Oh, I heard a few words there before I interfered; but it is not to me you'll say '_I don't know_.' That was good enough for Bartley and a lot of strangers. Trust to a father's infinite love, even if you have been imprudent or betrayed; but that's a thing I shall never believe except from your lips. |