He watched the dim blue reek swirling up from him, and he felt the pleasant aromatic bite upon his palate, while a restful languor crept over his weary and harassed body.

The three ladies sat together upon a flat rock.
"Good land, what a sight you are, Sadie!" cried Miss Adams suddenly, and it was the first reappearance of her old self.

"What _would_ your mother say if she saw you?
Why, sakes alive, your hair is full of straw and your frock clean crazy!" "I guess we all want some setting to rights," said Sadie, in a voice which was much more subdued than that of the Sadie of old.
"Mrs.Belmont, you look just too perfectly sweet anyhow, but if you'll allow me I'll fix your dress for you." But Mrs.Belmont's eyes were far away, and she shook her head sadly as she gently put the girl's hands aside.
"I do not care how I look.

I cannot think of it," said she; "could _you_, if you had left the man you love behind you, as I have mine ?" "I'm begin--beginning to think I have," sobbed poor Sadie, and buried her hot face in Mrs.

Belmont's motherly bosom..