This, after the heavy sums of money which he had expended in its improvement and reclamation, was a bitter addition to what he was forced to suffer.

On hearing of this last circumstance, and after perusing the notice which the man, who had come on some other message, had brought with him, he looked around him on every side for a considerable time.

At length he said, "Dora, is not this a fine country ?" "It is," she replied, looking at him with surprise.
"Would you like," he added, "to lave it ?" "To lave it, Bryan!" she replied.

"Oh, no, not to lave it;" and as she spoke, a deadly paleness settled upon her face.
"Poor Dora," he said, after surveying her for a time with an expression of love and compassion, "I know your saicret, and have done so this long time; but don't be cast down.

You have been a warm and faithful little friend to me, and it will go hard or I'll befriend you yet." Dora looked up into his face, and as she did, her eyes filled with tears.